Endurance (film)

This article is about the 1998 film. For other uses, see Endurance (disambiguation).
Endurance
Directed byLeslie Woodhead
Written byLeslie Woodhead
Produced byTerrence Malick
Max Palevsky
Edward R. Pressman
StarringHaile Gebrselassie
Shawananness Gebrselassie
Yonas Zergaw
Tedesse Haile
Bekele Gebrselassie
Alem Tellahun
CinematographyIvan Strasburg
Edited bySaar Klein
Oral Norrie Ottey
Music byJohn Powell
Production
companies
FilmFour
Helkon Filmverleih GmbH (as Helkon Media)
La Junta
Walt Disney Pictures
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release date
  • September 1998 (1998-09) (Telluride Film Festival)
Running time
83 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
Germany
LanguageEnglish

Endurance is a 1998 docudrama film about the famous distance runner Haile Gebrselassie with Gebrselassie playing himself.[1]

It was written and directed by Leslie Woodhead, with Bud Greenspan supervising the competition sequences, and produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie features Gebrselassie's upbringing in Ethiopia and his subsequent triumph in the 10,000-meter track event in the Atlanta Olympic Games of 1996.

The movie was released on DVD on January 31, 2012.

  1. ^ Cox, Dan (1998-09-04). "Streep gets fest rolling in Telluride". Variety. Retrieved 2022-08-16.