La Lutte (1961) Michel Brault - Eng Sub

Directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier, Claude Jutra Canada • 1961 • 28 minutes • 16 mm A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlors where the warriors practice their art. Nothing escapes the probing camera as well-muscled tyros grapple, punch, squirm, roar and grimace, adding their own variations of showmanship to amuse and excite the crowd.