The Lone Fighter

A gritty man in a grainy film: Filmmaker Arne Körner, a graduate of the Werner Herzog Rogue Film School and the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, portrays the former heavyweight boxer in this biographical short documentary. In 1972, a year before he fought against Muhammad Ali, Jürgen Blin was European Champion. Körner's lively, black-and-white 16mm portrait shows Blin playing dice and poker in his own pub and training today's talents. As we learn, the worst opponent of a man who has fought his way through life is boredom!

Keywords

  • Arne Körner
  • Made in Germany
  • Next Generation: HFBK Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
  • Young Talent
  • lifestyle
  • sport

Director

  • Arne Körner

Shorts


10min


16+

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Germany
2017
Jürgen Blin, who ran away from home at the age of 14 to go to sea, talks openly about his life and his years at a boxing school in Hamburg.

Jürgen Blin, who ran away from home at the age of 14 to go to sea, talks openly about his life and his years at a boxing school in Hamburg.


A gritty man in a grainy film: Filmmaker Arne Körner, a graduate of the Werner Herzog Rogue Film School and the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, portrays the former heavyweight boxer in this biographical short documentary.


In 1972, a year before he fought against Muhammad Ali, Jürgen Blin was European Champion. Körner's lively, black-and-white 16mm portrait shows Blin playing dice and poker in his own pub and training today's talents. As we learn, the worst opponent of a man who has fought his way through life is boredom!

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Cast & Crew