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Champions (Spanish: Campeones) is a 2018 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Javier Fesser.[4][5]

Champions
Film poster
Spanish	Campeones
Directed by	Javier Fesser
Screenplay by	David Marqués Javier Fesser
Based on	TV Book Champions
Produced by	Gabriel Arias-Salgado Alexandra Lebret Álvaro Longoria Luis Manso
Starring	Javier Gutiérrez Juan Margallo Athenea Mata Luisa Gavasa Daniel Freire Itziar Castro
Cinematography	Chechu Graf
Edited by	Roberto Bolado Javier Fesser
Music by	Rafael Arnau
Production companies	Películas Pendelton Morena Films Movistar+ TVE
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	6 April 2018 (2018-04-06) (Spain)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish
Budget	€4.5 million[1]
Box office	$23.8 million[2][3]

Plot

This movie is inspired by Aderes team in Burjassot (Valencia), a team created with people with intellectual disabilities that won twelve Spanish championships between 1999 and 2014.[6]

Marco Montes is the assistant coach of the basketball team CB Estudiantes. He is an arrogant man with bad manners and is fired from his job after pushing the head coach during a game over a disagreement over team strategy. After driving drunk into the back of a police car, Marco is ordered to either spend two years in prison or ninety days of community service, in the form of coaching Los Amigos, a team of basketball players with disabilities. At first, Montes complains about coaching the disabled players calling them subnormales (below normal). However, as he continues to coach the team, he realizes that each of the players has a unique background and they are extremely persistent in working together and playing well.[7]

Meanwhile, Marco and his wife Sonia are fighting with each other because Sonia wants a child and Marco is not ready yet. In particular, Iván, one of Marco's friends, meets Sonia at a bar and tells her that he is meeting with Marco over the weekend and that she can come to confront Marco then. Iván then proceeds to tell Marco that he is not going to go out with him in an attempt to get some alone time with Sonia because he finds her attractive. However, Marco still shows up and discusses with Sonia, they leave the bar still upset with each other. After Los Amigos's first away game, Marco realizes that it is incredibly difficult to travel with the team given their abrupt and often annoying interactions with the other people on public transportation. Marco tells Sonia about these difficulties, and she helps loan a camper van from her coworker at a sports gear shop. She then joins Marco and his team over several games and their relationship improves.

In the end, Los Amigos place second in the National Series, and Marco agrees to have a child with Sonia. As Marco leaves the Los Amigos team to go back to coaching professionally, he is thanked by all the team members for changing their lives.

Cast

Release

Distributed by Universal Pictures International Spain,[8] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 April 2018.[9]

Reception

Box office

The film is the highest-grossing Spanish language film of 2018 in Spain, with a box-office taking of €19.1 million from 3.3 million admissions.[10] Aamir Khan,an Indian actor announced to remake this film in Indian cinema and will start shooting from January 2023.

Awards and nominees

It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[11][12] The film won three Goya Awards, including Best Film,[13] Best New Actor (Jesús Vidal),[14] and Best Original Song ("Este es el momento", by Coque Malla).[15]
The film received five nominations for the 6th Platino Awards, including Best Ibero-American Film and Best Director.[16]

See also

• List of Spanish films of 2018
• List of submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

• Champions at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Wir sind Champions

Wir sind Champions (Originaltitel: Campeones) ist eine spanische Tragikomödie von Javier Fesser aus dem Jahr 2018.[2] Es handelt sich um eine Produktion von Morena Films, Pendelton Films, Mediaset Spain und Movistar+, an der auch RTVE und Universal Pictures International Spain beteiligt waren. Die Komödie wurde am 6. April 2018 uraufgeführt. Der Soundtrack enthält das Lied Este es el momento, das von Coque Malla komponiert und interpretiert wurde.

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- [en] Champions (2018 film)

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[es] Campeones (película)

Campeones es una comedia dramática de 2018 dirigida por Javier Fesser.[2] La historia muestra cómo Marco, un entrenador de baloncesto, deberá hacerse cargo de un nuevo equipo muy especial. Campeones es una producción de Morena Films, Películas Pendelton y Movistar+, que cuenta además con la participación de TVE y Universal Pictures International Spain. La película se estrenó el 6 de abril de 2018. La banda sonora, a cargo de Rafael Arnau (colaborador habitual de Fesser), cuenta con la canción "Este es el momento" compuesta e interpretada por Coque Malla.

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