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THE TOUR: THE LEGEND OF THE RACE
“The Tour – The Legend of the Race” sheds a new light on the last 100 years of the Tour de France, now considered one of the world’s most popular sporting events. The Tour has lived through a century of rich history, with ups and downs, triumphs and scandals, continually evolving with the times. Throughout it all one key characteristic has remained the incredible power of identifi cation the public has with the Tour cyclists, mythical figures that seem accessible and inaccessible at the same time. In order to reflect this human dimension of the Tour, the film tells the story through a selection of its emblematic heroes. Emblematic of the Tour, but also emblematic of an era, embodying in the fi lm their generation: Coppi, Bobet, Anquetil, Poulidor, Merckx, Hinault, Indurain, Armstrong…
Fully archive-based and colourised, “The Tour” cleverly weaves together all these individual stories with the story of the Tour de France itself, with the goal of creating a timeless and epic sports saga.
A film written by Jean-Christophe Rosé and Benoît Heimermann
Directed by Jean-Christophe Rosé
Edited by Fabienne Alvarez-Giro
With the voices of : André Dussollier
Documentary director: Deborah Ford
Original music composed and directed by Bruno Alexiu
Published by Cezame Music Agency – Cie des Phares & Balises
A Compagnie des Phares et Balises production
In co-production with EKLEKTIK Productions and RTBF
With the participation of Universal Pictures International Entertainment and AB Thématiques TOUTE L’HISTOIRE, ERR – Estonian Public Broadcasting, IRIB, J SPORTS Corporation, NBC Sports, RDS, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, RTVS (Slovak Television), RTV Slovenija, RUV Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, SBS-TV Australia, SuperSport, TG4, VRT, YLE
With the participation of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée and the MEDIA programme of the European Union
And France Télévisions
National Broadcaster : France 2 – AB Toute l’Histoire
International Sales :
RTBF Belgium
VRT Belgium
SBS Australia
RTS Switzerland
Super Sports Africa
NBC Universal USA
RTVS Slovakia
Jsports Japan
YLE Finland
Ceska TV Czech Republic
RSI Italian Swiss
RTVS Slovenia
ERR Estonia
Irib Media Middle East
NRK Norway
RUV Island
DR Danemark
Bike TV UK, Italia
TG4 Ireland
LTV Latvia
RTVE Spain
TVI Portugal
Globosat Brazil
Spiegel Germany
RDS Canada
© Cie des Phares & Balises – Eklektik Productions – RTBF (Télévision belge) – 2013
