Spirit of the Marathon” the most critically acclaimed films (over 1 million dollars collected in the U.S.), shoot in 2008 at the “Chicago Marathon” has a sequel that will be presented – in premiere in Italy – at “Sport Movies & Tv 2013 – 31st Milano International FICTS Fest” , Final of 14 Festivals of the Worldwide Championship of Cinema and Sport Television “World FICTS Challenge”, carried out in the 5 Continents held in Milano (Italy) from 4 to 8 December.

The documentary film “Spirit of the Marathon 2” (“26.2 Productions” – USA, 101 min., executive producer Mark Jonathan Harris 3-times Oscar winner, director Jon Dunham award-winning filmmaker and marathon runner), tells the stories, labors and dreams of seven runners from all over the world running the “2012 Marathon of Rome”. A mix of art, culture and sports, a “tripe” of 42 km in the “Eternal City”, which involved the crew for 3 months: from new runners, till the veterans and the champions, each of them had a different path in life that brought them to the marathon “that can change your life”.

The Ukraine Vasyl Matviychuk hopes to join the Olympic team while Epiphanie Nyirabarame from Uganda uses his successful marathon runner in order to offer a better life to his family and to his community. Others like Clifford Scott from Jobstown (New Jersey) use race as a catharsis after the death of his son, while the Italian Domenico Anzini 73 year-old who has run all the marathons of Rome and across the line of 60 marathons competed. The experience of every athlete is intersected with the history of the 42.195km race, told by the greatest runners of the world. Among the international “top runner”, there are the Kenyan Patrick Macau (world record in Berlin 2011), the world record holder Paula Radcliffe (U.K.), the 2004 Olympic marathon champion Stefano Baldini (Italy), Bill Rodgers (USA) four-time champion of the Marathon of Boston and New York. Gelindo Bordin (gold medal in Seoul 1988) and Orlando Pizzolato rulers of the New York marathon identify “the spirit of the marathon”.

Part of collection of the film will be donated to “The One Fund” for the victims of the world’s oldest marathon, that one of Boston.