A 1981 British film by Hugh Hudson about two runners — one Jewish, one a Christian missionary — competing in the 1924 Paris Olympics while confronting British establishment prejudice.
Won the Academy Award for Best Picture and became a landmark of British cinema; Nolan identified it as capturing the subversive potential within institutional conformity — the emotional landscape of his boarding school years.
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