The Game of Their Lives | |
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Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Cheollima Chukgudan |
McCune–Reischauer | Ch'ŏllima Ch'ukkudan |
Directed by | Daniel Gordon |
Produced by | Daniel Gordon (principal), Nicholas Bonner (associate producer) |
Edited by | Justine Wright |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Language | English |
The Game of Their Lives (천리마 축구단; Ch'ŏllima Ch'ukkudan, Chollima Football Team) is a 2002 documentary film directed and produced by Daniel Gordon with Nicholas Bonner of Koryo Tours as an associate producer about the seven surviving members of the North Korea national football team who participated in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.[1][2][3][4] Their victory over Italy propelled the North Korean team into the quarterfinal: it was the first time an Asian team had advanced so far in a World Cup.
The seven surviving members of the North Korean team were brought back to Middlesbrough in 2002 for the documentary film The Game of Their Lives, made by Nick Bonner and Dan Gordon and shown on BBC 4