Exhausting day by day pre-Olympic routine of one of the best swimmer of Lithuania, her harsh life story and sudden private challenges – swimming followers will be capable to see all that within the documentary movie “Rūta” which can inform the story of the Olympic champion Rūta Meilutytė.
Unseen, unheard, unknown
Cinematographer Ronaldas Buožis and photographer Rokas Darulis offered a trailer of the story about Rūta Meilutytė this month. It’s lower than two weeks already until their movie will disclose the unseen facet of the younger Olympic champion from Lithuania.
Viewers will get to understand how R. Meilutytė ready for the 2016 Summer season Olympics and can witness tales instructed by the swimmer herself and her relations. The movie will inform the story of her childhood, the trail to the Olympic gold medal in London and different unknown particulars of her life.
“We seeked to inform the general story about Rūta, not solely to doc her preparation for Rio. She could be very inspiring and has a rare character. Her work ethics and persistence might be an instance for every of us, – mentioned R. Darulis. – Additionally, with a purpose to objectively choose her efficiency within the final Olympic video games, a broader story of her ought to be identified. We hope that we revealed it efficiently.”
Began earlier than Rio
Two guys behind the digicam began their work through the summer season of 2016, when one of the best swimmer of Lithuania has been making ready for Rio Olympics. In accordance with the filmmakers, the thought for the movie got here fairly spontaneously, once they each lived in London.
“We have been considering about making a film collectively. Rūta was making ready for the Olympics throughout that point. She is our mutual good friend, and we thought that it will be attention-grabbing to seize her preparation, – instructed R. Darulis. – It was very attention-grabbing to point out, what’s going on through the peak of Rūta’s profession. We offered the thought to her and she or he immediately agreed. We didn’t know that it’s going to take us nearly two years, however now we see that it was value it. We’re comfortable to succeed in the end line.”
Crew of two began to seize Rūta’s day by day life at her residence, within the swimming pool and within the gymnasium, at Plymouth, United Kingdom. R. Buožis and R. Darulis needed to bear the grueling tempo of preparation for the Olympics. They needed to meet the Lithuania’s swimming star at 5 am every morning within the swimming pool and to doc two swimming trainings there and, after a break – a exercise on the gymnasium within the night.
Later filmmakers accompanied Rūta in her final coaching camp earlier than the Olympics, in Tenerife, Spain. Lastly, multiple yr after that they met her once more, within the European brief course championship, in Copenhagen. Between the competitions R. Buožis and R. Darulis documented Rūta’s life in Lithuania. Among the scenes have been filmed in Kaunas, Vilnius and Nida.
On the Olympic rhythm
A regime of an athlete and different circumstances compelled the movie creators to work and not using a situation. Nonetheless, it wasn’t an invincible impediment for them to constantly inform the story of Rūta. Crew wasn’t capable of forsee how R. Meilutytė will carry out within the Olympics, nor they might dictate what character of her will see their viewers. Then again, new storylines opened new alternatives for the movie creators.
“Adapting to the fixed altering was one of many largest challenges. When an athlete continues to be lively, it’s onerous to foretell or plan the plot of film. So, with each change in Rūta’s life, story of the movie modified as nicely. We continued our shoots and developed new instructions of the narrative”, – that’s how R. Buožis summarized nearly two years of capturing R. Meilutytė’s life.
The champion of the 2012 Summer season Olympics is in the course of the preparation for Tokyo Olympic video games in the intervening time. Each storytellers know even the best particulars of her routine. The filmmaker duo captured greater than 30 hours of video materials. Their work is quickly to turn into open for the general public eye, because the documentary movie “Rūta” hits the screens on the 2nd of March, 2018 in Lithuania.
Movie manufacturing was supported by Lithuanian movie centre.
