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- BFI identifier53864
- Date1981-03-30 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisBiographical athletics drama. In 1919, Harold Abrahams, is one of the stars of the amateur running team at Caius College in Cambridge. The team also includes other Harold's friends, such as Lord Andrew Lindsay, Aubrey Montague and Henry Stallard. In Scotland, Eric Liddell is studying, while giving a hand to his sister, who runs a local mission. He competes in the Highland Games and is convinced to become a professional runner by his friend Sandy McGrath. Harold and Eric finally meet on the race track. With Harold's Jewish ancestry a part of his drive, and Eric's Christian faith a part of his, this is the beginning of a friendship/rivalry that will culminate during the 1924 Paris Olympics. (Synopsis)
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- Credits
- CastNicholas Farrell (Aubrey Montague)
Nigel Havers (Lord Andrew Lindsay)
Ian Charleson (Eric Liddell)
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Title
Chariots of Fire (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/79BC-BC65-2766-8CE7-92F2-ZCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Combined Continuity & Master Title List - SCR-1591
Script - Script type: Screenplay - First Draft - SCR-1592
Script - Script type: Screenplay - 2nd Draft - SCR-1593
Script - Script type: Dialogue Continuity - SCR-2500
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-53864
Small pressbook held. See DAVID PUTTNAM (CHARIOTS OF FIRE) Collection.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-4761
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-11160
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-13789
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-18095
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-18762
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-c1i
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-c1h
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-c1g
Photograph: publicity - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00o-cid
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00o-c1j
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- BooksBritish cinema now - 1985view all
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes July 2017
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Chariots of Fire
Work - 53864 - 1981-03-30 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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