Alguna Tristeza

In the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the Peruvian football team beat Austria to qualify for the semi-finals. An unpalatable victory for the Third Reich, and for the Olympic Committee… so they cancelled the match. Images of a stolen victory, of a country abandoned to its fate by the rest of the world, like an animal left on the wayside. Images of a nation shaken by the world’s turbulent, unpredictable events, surviving from day to day, where there is no longer anyone at the government’s helm. (Yann Lardeau)