The subject matter of director Sebastian Dehnhardt’s documentary
Klitschko -- brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, who have each captured the heavyweight-boxing crown at various times in their careers, yet refuse to face each other in the ring -- is more than interesting enough to make up for the fact that it breaks no new stylistic ground whatsoever.
Dehnhardt does a perfect job of capturing their spartan childhood growing up on a Soviet military base in the Ukraine, and being forced to deal with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Vitali is a fantastic interview subject, able to share novelistic details about their early life while insis...
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2011
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