SAFF 2024

Down, A Comrades Story

Expired November 18, 2024 7:59 AM
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Down, A Comrades Story
Commemorating 100 years of the Comrades Marathon and featuring interviews with legends past and present, Down, A Comrades Story explores the triumph of the human spirit that this great race personifies.
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We travel with over 13 000 runners from before sunrise to after sunset as they

run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. We discover uplifting stories, folklore, history and tradition - both famous and personal – a sample of the grand and interconnected human story that is the Comrades.


A film celebrating 100 years of the world’s greatest ultra-marathon, unpacked during the course of a day, the running of the 2022 Comrades Marathon. This is the intriguing motif that underscores ‘Down, A Comrades Story’. Using the 2022 event to bind a century of epic races, a sequence of remarkable stories unfolds and reaffirms the majesty of the world-renowned Comrades.


Note: there is free bonus content available for this film. To watch, go to the Free Bonus Content section of the Virtual Festival site.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    89 minutes
  • Language
    Afrikaans, SeSotho, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Setswana
  • Country
    South Africa
  • Rating
    Some course language
  • Director
    Gareth Whittaker
  • Executive Producer
    Jack Davis, Kelvin Watt
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