Ping pong (DVD) [dvdvideorecording] HanWay Films ; BRITDOC Films ; Banyak Films in association with BRITDOC and Channel 4 presents a Hartford Brothers film produced by Anson Hartford ; directed by Hugh Hartford.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2012. Special features: extended and deleted scenes; trailer. Les D'Arcy, Rune Forsberg, Sun Lao, Terry Donlon, Dorothy DeLow.
Summary:
A documentary about eight competitors in the World Over-80 Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. They are all in their 80s and 90s; one Australian woman is a centurion. Most of the players have been athletes all their lives, but one woman took the sport up as an octogenarian after suffering a stroke. The advanced masters scene is like those in other sports, with rivalries, egomania and even dirty tricks. Losing doesn't get any less painful with age.
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