Story about Chariots of Fire / 火战车 / 火的战车 / 火之战车 / 烈火战车
It's the post-WWI era. Briton Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell are both naturally gifted fast sprint...
It's the post-WWI era. Briton Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell are both naturally gifted fast sprinter, but approach running and how it fits into their respective lives differently. The son of a Lithuanian-Jew, Harold, who lives a somewhat privileged life as a student at Cambridge, uses being the fastest to overcome what he sees as the obstacles he faces in life as a Jew despite that privilege. In his words to paraphrase an old adage, he is often invited to the trough, but isn't allowed to drink. His running prowess does earn him the respect of his classmates, especially his running teammates, and to some extent the school administration, if only he maintain what they conider proper gentlemanly decorum, which isn't always the case in their minds. Born in China the son of Christian missionaries, Eric, a Scot, is a devout member of the Church of Scotland who eventually wants to return to that missionary work. He sees running as a win-win in that the notoriety of being fast gives him...
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