Director and poet Jørgen Leth is, amongst other things, obsessed with bicycle racing as a ritual expression of human victory and defeat, and from this obsession he has made the unique A Sunday in Hell . The Sunday is April 11th, 1976, when the classic and grueling annual bicycle race Paris-Roubaix was held, and the Hell is the cobblestone field roads of Northern France, where the champions of bicycle racing battle for victory. With an army of photographers, Jørgen Leth followed the race in all of its details, and he has edited the footage into a mythic and documentary spectacular.
Jørgen Leths personlige film om det klassiske cykelløb Paris-Roubaix. Ruten er en af de hårdeste, der kan tænkes, og løbet afvikles på kun én dag. Den frygtes af professionelle ryttere, men det giver samtidig megen prestige, hvis man kommer over stregen. I denne film har løbet sine egne helte og skurke, sin egen dramatik og barske poesi.
Co-funded by the European Union
