Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for ‘The Racer’, Kieron J. Walsh’s Irish cycling drama.
Set in summer 1998, The Racer follows late-career cyclist Dom Chabol, who has been one of the best support riders on the Tour de France for 20 years, but secretly harbours a desire to wear the yellow jersey once before his career is over.
Louis Talpe (Of Kings And Prophets) stars as Chabol, alongside Matteo Simoni, Tara Lee, Iain Glen, and Karel Roden.
It is produced by Ireland’s Blinder Films (Love & Friendship), in coproduction with Calach Films of Luxembourg and US company Caviar (Sound Of Metal).
Walsh wrote the script with Ciaran Cassidy (Jihad Jane), with Blinder Films’ Katie Holly and Yvonne Donohoe producing and Calach’s Jesus Gonzalez-Elvira co-producing with Caviar’s Robin Kerremans and Dimitri Verbeeck.
The film is supported by Screen Ireland, Film Fund Luxembourg, Eurimages, Screen Flanders, the BAI Sound & Vision Fund, and RTE. Kinepolis Film Distribution will release the film in Benelux.
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Very curious 😉
Looks amazing
Looks brilliant can’t wait to see if the dancing scene made the cut 😉
Would love to see this as I worked on it in Dublin. Wonder if or when it will be released in Ireland.
Where are ye Bren ,,…..🤔🤔
Is this a Belgian actor with an Irish accent??
goo ok
A HUGE THUMBS DOWN. Older movies on Prime have the same name. I was misdirected from Instagram to an older flick that has nothing to do whatsoever to this movie. So someone has messed up somewhere. Wasted my money for a worthless rental.
"The Race is won by the rider who can suffer the most."
The man who got hit by another rider and got his frame broken and got pushed out the race: Oh wow I won
No subtitles for foreign language scenes. It had a bulk of it in the film….
film is absolutely fantastic. i feel that everyone should watch especially this movie.
It's a shame it didn't got any promotion at all. Really felt the movie all the way to the end.
The movie reminds me of the movie the program
This looks absolutely awful.
Is it available on Netflix ?!
Dude looks far too heavy to be a road rider.
Just watched the movie in the cinema and totally loved it! It’s just amazing! Dom is perfect and he looks lovely on and off the bike ☺️
I don’t understand why the movie wasn’t advertised more here in Korea, never heard of it until my friend told me that her friend told her about it! 😀
Love the way they casted someone with a body type better suited to track racing
I'm in the background in the crash scene and also where they are having a fight outside the team bus I'm a rider in the background.I was an extra in the movie.
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