Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Picture Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination & inspiration The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God & Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice & anti-Semitism There&s delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams&s coach) & John Gielgud & Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies Vangelis&s soaring synthesised score which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s also won an Oscar Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) & was produced by David Puttnam --Jim Emerson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title