Federica Pellegrini, protagonist of “Underwater”.
UNDERWATER – FEDERICA PELLEGRINI
Gender: Biographical
Directed by Sara Ristori. With Federica Pellegrini. On Prime Video
The greatest Italian athlete of the last twenty years, her successes and her frailties, daily fatigue and private life. Underwater is the documentary produced by Fremantle that tells the secrets of Federica Pellegrini, the “Divine” of Italian sportone of the most victorious swimmers in the history of her discipline.
We are in the midst of the era of sports documentaries (serial or in a single solution), a way to tell the sport in a different key than the live eventand streaming platforms seem to represent the natural space for this type of products and representations.
Underwater retraces the steps of Federica Pellegrini’s approach to the Tokyo Olympics, her fifth consecutive, culminating in yet another final.
The documentary it is not only a celebration of triumphs and an unrepeatable career, but also a snapshot of his vulnerabilityof the fear of not making it, of the meeting with the coach Matteo Giunta who will become a life partner, of the specter of Covid that forces us to postpone the Olympics for a year and to deal with the most formidable opponent: the time that passes.
For those who love the “behind the scenes” of sports celebrities and the secrets of their successes.
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