O Sport, You Are Peace!

O Sport, You Are Peace! (Russian: О спорт, ты - мир!) was a 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow.

The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot
The name of the film is borrowed from Ode to Sport by the founder of the Olympic Games of today Pierre de Coubertin. The film tells about the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, in particular, the opening and closing ceremonies of the games are highlighted in it. The voiceover is read by Nikolai Ozerov.

The picture expressed an official look at the sports festival and was in a certain sense propaganda (which in this case does not detract from its artistic merits). It clearly expresses the Soviet idea of ​​sport as a "messenger of peace and friendship between peoples" and a means of "educating a healthy and harmoniously developed personality in the era of developed socialism."

In 1982, the filmmakers were awarded the USSR State Prize.

Nominated from the Soviet Union for the Academy Award in the category "Best Foreign Language Film" (not among the nominees).

The works of Alexandra Pakhmutova, sounding in the film “About Sport, You are Peace!”, Were released in 1981 by Melody Firma on the record “Bird of Happiness” (С60-16489-90).

In 2008, on the Sport TV channel, a television series of the same name was released dedicated to the history of the Olympic Games with an off-screen commentary by Nikolai Popov. A ballad about sports is a 1979 film shot in a similar style by Ozerov and Rychkov.

Cast

 * Zodiac
 * Sebastian Coe
 * Steve Ovett
 * Miruts Ifter