Storyville: 18x17

A Sunday In Hell

Jorgen Leth’s film focuses on the 1976 Paris-Roubaix single day bike race over the cobbled farm tracks of northern France, normally reserved for cattle. Leth covers the race with twenty cameras and a helicopter and captures the drama as some of the sport’s greats, including Merckx, De Vlaeminck, Maertens and Moser, battle it out through the dirt and dust clouds.