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Blijven Gaan (2022)

Name: Blijven Gaan
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-07-08T09:01:09+02:00
Rating: 3.56

Documentary | 56 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 56 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Anneloek Sollart

IMDb score: 7,3 (7)

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Blijven Gaan plot

Early in the morning a group of seniors in tracksuits are waiting in front of the closed door of their gym in a new neighborhood in Rotterdam on the Maas. At the stroke of seven, these fanatical seniors - about twenty in number - take possession of the building. It's their base. Their coffee shop. This gym in a metropolis is a world in itself. The elderly are all in the same boat: the body falters, their environment is shrinking. But this place brings them together and gives them unprecedented pleasure.

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mrklm

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8 July 2024 at 09:01

In the heart of Rotterdam there is a small gym for seniors, who work on their physical health under the guidance of Lieve or Remi. In the gym, enthusiasm, humor and conviviality predominate and social contact is of great value for both athletes and trainers. Sollart films five regular visitors (from 71 to 91 years old), with different backgrounds, also outside the gym, to find out who these people really are and what drives them to go to the gym as often as possible despite their age and increasing physical limitations. to come to the gym. The variety of personalities and personal stories is a big plus, as is the combination of openness and down-to-earth with which they talk about being old and the insights that provides. Provided with sparse, but well-written commentary by Wilfried de Jong.