Beyond the Mat

Beyond the Mat is a documentary where the spectator is taken from the ring deep into the American wrestling scene. The film acquaints the viewer with the people behind the absurd characters and gives an insight into the million-dollar industry that surrounds the matches. One of sports culture's most breathtaking forms is created in the borderline between show, theatre and performance in front of a crowd as large as it is overrexcited. Despite the colourful wrestlers swelling muscles it is not uncommon that their equally ruthless promoters keep them in a firm grip. At the same time they wrestle against personal problems such as drug abuse and shattered families. A struggle where the most well aimed ''piledriver'', vigorous ''flying elbow'' or the most death defying ''Harlem hangover'' will be useless.

Medverkande
Terry Funk,Mick Foley,Jake Roberts: Producent
Brian Grazer: Manus
Barry Blaustein: Foto
Michael Grady: Musik
Nathan Barr: Talat språk
Swedish