The Other Dream Team
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  • Starring: Arvydas Sabonis, Jonas Valanciunas, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Sarunas Marciulionis
  • Summary: After leading the USSR to a gold medal (and victory over the U.S.A.) at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis were poster boys for their oppressor’s sports machine. Four year later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, they emerged as symbols of democracy, helping their country break free from the shackles of Communism, and willing newly independent Lithuania to the medal stand at the Barcelona Olympics. The Other Dream Team documents the Lithuanians’ experiences behind the Iron Curtain for 50 years, where elite athletes were subjected to brutalities of Communist rule. As they hid from KGB agents and feared for their lives, Lithuania’s basketball stars always shared a common goal - to utilize their athletic gifts to help free their country. (The Film Arcade)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Kevin Jagernauth
    Sep 27, 2012
    83
    Moving, rousing, funny and at times even haunting.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Sep 27, 2012
    80
    A sports film to remember.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Sep 27, 2012
    60
    Augmented by a trove of archival footage reaching back to the 1930s, Jesse Feldman's buoyant cinematography merges political history and sports mania into a triumphant timeline.

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