Champions

'Campeones', 2018

A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.

A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.

Director

Javier Fesser

Runtime

124 minutes

Type

Feature

Genre

Comedy, Sport, Drama

Keywords

basketball, singing in a car, singing on a bus, singing in an rv, singing on airplane

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Champions

Javier Fesser, 2018

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Aspect ratio

2.35 : 1

Color

Color | Color (4K)

Screening formats

Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)

Awards

The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema

Winner

2019

Film and Education Values

Platino Award

Storyline

A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.

Marco Montes is a basketball coach who works as second trainer of an important team of ACB (Spanish basketball national league), but in reality he is a man burned inside himself in his professional life as well as personal life, turning him in an arrogant and bad-mannered man. During an ACB's game, a discussion with the first trainer causes an incident and he's fired out from the stadium. Just later Marco, completely drunk, crashes unwittingly his car against a police car, being arrested. In the trial the judge makes Marco to decide: go to the jail for 2 years or passing 90 days making community services. Reluctant, Marco is forced to training a basketball team called "Los Amigos" (The Friends) formed by the mentally disabled players Manuel, Paquito, Jesús, Sergio, Fabián, Juanma, Benito, Marin and Collantes, and helped by old Julio, social center's director where they meet. At the same time that Marco tries to save his marriage with Sonia, a woman tired of his excuses about to have a...

Summary

A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.

Synopsis

Marco Montes is a basketball coach who works as second trainer of an important team of ACB (Spanish basketball national league), but in reality he is a man burned inside himself in his professional life as well as personal life, turning him in an arrogant and bad-mannered man. During an ACB's game, a discussion with the first trainer causes an incident and he's fired out from the stadium. Just later Marco, completely drunk, crashes unwittingly his car against a police car, being arrested. In the trial the judge makes Marco to decide: go to the jail for 2 years or passing 90 days making community services. Reluctant, Marco is forced to training a basketball team called "Los Amigos" (The Friends) formed by the mentally disabled players Manuel, Paquito, Jesús, Sergio, Fabián, Juanma, Benito, Marin and Collantes, and helped by old Julio, social center's director where they meet. At the same time that Marco tries to save his marriage with Sonia, a woman tired of his excuses about to have a...

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Cast & crew

Cast

Javier Gutiérrez

Actor

Athenea Mata

Actress

Juan Margallo

Actor

Crew

Director

Javier Fesser

Screenwriter

David Marqués

Screenwriter

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