Icarus (2017)
Rating: 7.7/10
Duration: 121 min
Year: 2017
Genres: Documentary
Director(s): Bryan Fogel
Description:
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
Cast
- Bryan Fogel as Self
- Dave Zabriskie as Self
- Don Catlin as Self
- Grigory Rodchenkov as Self
- Scott Brandt as Self
- Ben Stone as Self
- Richard Pound as Self
- Richard McLaren as Self
- Nikita Kamaev as Self (archive footage)
- Thomas Bach as Self (archive footage)
- Sebastian Coe as Self (archive footage)
- Vitaliy Mutko as Self (archive footage)
- Dan Cogan as Self (voice)
- David Howman as Self
- Jacques Rogge as Self (archive footage)
