And Fogel is 100% on board with that thinking. Icarus director calls Russian Olympic participation. Starring: Bryan Fogel, Grigory Rodchenkov. Oscars Best: Malibu Resident Bryan Fogel and His Sports-Doping Documentary Icarus. What he ends up discovering is far bigger than anyone could. In his Oscar-winning film, an American cyclist plunges into a vast doping scandal involving a Russian scientist - Putins most-wanted whistleblower. Many will likely connect the events in "Icarus" to the allegations that Russia interfered in the US 2016 presidential election. Filmmaker Bryan Fogel sets out on a mission to learn about performance-enhancing drugs in sports. “So at Sundance we had a lot of cards because we didn't have the time to put that together.” Also different from the Sundance cut, there’s now animation in the movie. Showing and not telling,” Fogel said, who adds that the story also now goes quicker into Rodchenkov’s story. “The movie has the same running time, but we lost 20 minutes of material that was in the Sundance cut, and replaced that with 20 minutes of material that is bringing this story together emotionally. In fact, some of that footage has only recently been included in the movie, as Fogel didn’t have enough time to get it into the Sundance cut. Fogel was there to capture it all on camera. This led to the movie's most dramatic moment, Rodchenkov getting in touch with the New York Times in May 2016 to deliver the whistle-blowing story that rocked the sports world. This story had to come out, and Grigory was the only person on planet earth who had this evidence.”įogel and Rodchenkov’s faces were suddenly plastered all over Russian television, and Fogel claiming his Facebook and email were constantly trying to be hacked into. “I had so many sleepless nights in that period,” Fogel said.
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