Per un raggio di gloria

Cycling and poetry, titled a Swiss Italian newspaper. The film uses a poetic sports commentary by the famous Swiss Italian poet Alberto Nessi who likes personally cycling and his text is spoken by the well-known Italian actor Omero Antonutti. The film fellows the young polish racing team during their preparations in Poland, the very flat landscape and their arrival in the Swiss hills. But we also fellow the highly professionals from Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and others during the World championship in Lugano, Switzerland. We do have interviews with the Spanish cook and journalist in the documentary also. The documentary shows not only the official races but also the preparations of young raiders of different teams, the training of various professional raiders, the women and men's competitions and some little and amusing stories happening beside and during the big event. We are the only film crew who filmed the accident of Alex Zülle when he fall down. The documentary shows not only the winner like Barbara Heeb, Alex Zülle or Johan Museeuw, Michele Bartoli, Tony Rominger, Giuliano Figueras, Luca Sironi, Andreas Kloeden, Mauro Gianetti, but also the outsiders. The film contains also a rare b/w flashback of the champions Fausto Coppi who won the World championship in Lugano 1953. The music was especially composed for the documentary by two Swiss musicians, Christian Gilardi and Ivano Torre.