You may love racing but you can't race for loving.
Cyclomania is a film about three young bicycle messengers and a summer they spend together. Cycling means the whole world to K. He spends his days as a bicycle messenger and his nights training for races. K knows no boundaries in training, he whips himself to the very limits of endurance.
Eetu works in the same messenger firm and races on the same team as
K. The two best friends swear by their common goal, but at the same
time also compete for the position of first rider on the team.
Oona, whom Eetu has a crush on starts working at the messenger firm
and training with the two boys. Furiously the threesome starts preparing
for the main race of the season. As days pass the stakes grow higher,
and the young cyclomaniacs find themselves racing at the expense of
love, friendship and health.
Screenplay & Director Simo Halinen
Cinematography Pentti Keskimäki, Kari Sohlberg, fsc.
Editor Jukka Nykänen
Sound design Olli Huhtanen
Music Timo Hietala
Art Director Merete Boström
Producer Tero Kaukomaa, Blind Spot Pictures Oy
Production Support Finnish Film Foundation / Erkki Astala, Petri Jokiranta
Nordisk Film- & TV Fond / Svend Abrahamsen
Together with YLE / TV1 co-productions / Eila Werning
ZDF / ARTE, Das Kleine Fernsehspiel / Burkhard Althoff
Sveriges Television AB, SVT / Ivar Köhn
2001, 93 minutes, 35 mm colour, Dolby digital
World Sales Igel Media
