The documentary follows a boxing coach and his trainee from the very beginning to the first successes. Both characters are of Roma origins from the infamous Ghetto in the middle of Budapest. Misi Sipos (60), an ex member of the 8th district mafia, while recovering in a prison hospital after a shootout with a rival gang, turned to God and left behind his criminal past. As his personal “mission” he started a local community boxing club aimed at young children from troubled families, to keep them away from crime and show them an alternative for their future. Zoli Szabó (21) is one of these kids. He has been boxing in the amateur league under Misi’s guidance for 6 years. Zoli lives in a one bedroom apartment with his dad, stepmother, half sister The documentary follows a boxing coach and his trainee from the very beginning to the first successes. Both characters are of Roma origins from the infamous Ghetto in the middle of Budapest. Misi Sipos (60), an ex member of the 8th district mafia, while recovering in a prison hospital after a shootout with a rival gang, turned to God and left behind his criminal past. As his personal “mission” he started a local community boxing club aimed at young children from troubled families, to keep them away from crime and show them an alternative for their future. Zoli Szabó (21) is one of these kids. He has been boxing in the amateur league under Misi’s guidance for 6 years. Zoli lives in a one bedroom apartment with his dad, stepmother, half sister
and his fiancée, who is already pregnant.Despite his young age he has to face up to the responsibility of providing forhis new family. He has a tough decision to make, as he either becomes aprofessional boxer, which comes with a lot of sacrifices or he follows in thefootsteps of his mobster father.
The film is about the path they take together.Misi as a father figure does everything in his might to spare Zoli from themistakes he had made in his past. The documentary follows them through thisjourney, day by day in real life situations, avoiding talking heads and otherformative elements of traditional factual movies.
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János Zoltán Kiss, Zoltán Szabó, MihálySipos, Krisztina Belinszky
