A rare chance to catch Danish director Jørgen Leth’s lovingly shot 1977 epic about the Paris-Roubaix cycling classic. When the biggest stars of the day - Eddy Merckx, Roger de Vlaeminck and Freddy Maertens - do battle over the terrifying, dusty cobbles of the “Hell of the North” in the sport’s biggest single-day race, Leth’s cameras are everywhere, on the roadside, in the following cars and in the heart of the crashes, the pain and the glory.
"Arguably the best film ever made about professional cycling" Peter Cowie, International Film Guide
Introduced by The Guardian’s William Fotheringham, author of a critically acclaimed book about the film, who will do a Q&A afterwards.
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A Sunday in Hell
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