On the Pole

USA, 1960, 58 min

Screenplay:

Robert Drew

Cinematography:

Albert Maysles

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This pillar of direct cinema captures the fame and death of race-car driver Eddie Sachs. It combines original with archival footage, black-and-white with color film, and among other things makes use of sped-up images in order to achieve the same effect as in Primary. Again, the film tries to find the logic of the depicted events and to offer an objective také on them. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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