The Stars and The Water Carriers: The 1973 Giro d'Italia (Better Colouring)
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2013
- Director & Writer: Jørgen Leth
The images from the Tour de France in the television production Eddy Merckx in the Vincinity of a Cup of Coffee may be seen as a small sketch for the fully unfurled epic cycling drama Stars and Watercarriers. The film follows the 1973 Giro d'Italia and in his commentary Leth explains the fascination exerted by the great cycle races: "The most beautiful, most pathetic images cycling can give us involve extreme performances in classic terrain..." www.imdb.com/title/tt0200173/p...
May be referred as "Stars and Watercarriers" 
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From the early 90's and for more than two decades way into the new millennia, us Danes were blessed with Jørgen Leth's almost hypnotic story-telling, knowledge of history, culture and insight, not only for the riders, but also all regions of France, Italy, Spain and the Benelux area, and their individual cycling history.
When he was fired as a journalist/expert from the Danish network, airing all cycling on Danish TV, they lost literally 40-50% of the viewers. For many Danes, he WAS the voice of cycling, especially loved and endeared when he was partnered up with Jørgen Mader. A more iconic sports reporting duo, you'll never find. At least in my opinion.
Sounds to me that he is the Phil Leggett in Denmark.
The combination of breathtaking views, magnificent sportsmanship, hypnotic music and calm commentary. This is art.
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22:07 The interviewing, with a cable stretching out from a car, while riding no-hands - then the interviewer's job grabbed away from him by a competitor - this is golden.
Fuente...Fuente...Fuente grandissimo scalatore staccava tutti in salita persino Eddy Merckx.
Io ricordo Pantani e Fuente ❤❤❤i più grandi scalatori, beneamati dagli sportivi.
Bellissimo video, grazie di averlo pubblicato.
Really enjoyed, a romantic little piece, that took me back to now what seems a more civilised time!!!. Thank you so very much
And now I finally understand why Merckx is the greatest and known as the Cannibal. Utterly, utterly impressive how he rides his strongest competitors off his wheel, stage after stage. How HE does it, not his team mates.
These men were absolute cardio machines. Able to withstand and surpass immense amounts of pain.
The music, narration, and hissing of the film makes this sound like a Boards of Canada song
I haven't seen this one since the 70's, when I raced myself. Thanks ever so much for posting this video! What I remember the most was the great Ole Ritter.
Almost 50 years ago…amazing heroic efforts. Always get goosebumps watching this.
Cycling culture at its best. Thank you uploader and Jørgen Leth!
A great movie... the tt section focusing on Ole Ritter is fantastic. A good reminder men rode fast long before carbon and aero. "Pain is an icon..." great stuff!
And before helmets
@@livininchains4788 Before ALL this new age hipster crap, both equipment and riding style, technique, etc. ad nauseam....., that today has made the sport so plastic, so fay.
I'm really in complete awe the narration of this documentary is poetically based and very inspiring I love it!
This is a really good video. I read about it in Bradley Wiggins book ‘Icons’ and was delighted to find it here on RUclips. My favourite scene is an on road interview where one of the other cyclists asks Mercx to let them have a go at winning, ‘Say what you like, I am indifferent’ was his reply 😁 Thanks for posting.
Yes, same. I was sent looking for this while reading Wiggins' "Icons".
The best cycling movie ever! Pure joy! OMG!!!!!!!!
i agree
The music is positively funereal.
Das ist eine der schönsten Rennrad-Dokumentationen , die es überhaupt gibt. Ein großes Dankeschön für das Veröffentlichen!
First time I’ve watched this, captivating !!
Eddie Merckx. Such Strong. So Power. Wow.
The commentary is captivating. Wonderful video
I love this video. My favorite documentary. Thanks so much for posting!
I love the feel of the video, the commentary, the music and the VHS quality. Whilst I feel at home in the modern age, this (and similar documentaries) has such character.
Love the music at 8.45, what a stunning sentimental documentary. Merckx simply devastating and great to have discovered Fuente through this documentary, he reminds me a bit of Pantani, a pure climber.
merckx's strategy: take control of the race by taking the lead. stay there. win race.
Anquetil did it before it was cool, TdF 61
Merckx pushed a 53 -17 gear up the col de Tourmalet. How tough was that!!!
@@phillyfrenchy6053 63, Anquetil was more Indurain type.
Dirt roads, friction shifting, straight blocks, big gears, low pedal cadence, steel bikes, no radios, no helmets, Merckx: OLD TIME RACING!
What a great film! I love the narration, the all around coverage, and the great race footage. Thanks for uploading!!
Fuenté riding with bar-end shifters. Never noticed that before when watching.
what a gem. Strangely beguiling and totally fascinating. Oh that music!
Thanks so much for posting this. Epic footage.
I can see why you call this epic footage. I will try to watch whole thing sometime. I am trying to see if this Google plus makes more sense to me than Facebook which I am giving up on.
This movie and "A Sunday in Hell" are cycling classics. Must watch.
The volume on my phone is all the way up and this beautiful pro cycling race about the 1973 Giro is absolute silence.
Great Documentary, thanks for this 👍
“On his way to carry cold soft drinks and beer for his comrades.” Oh the good ole days.
Such a crack up interviewing merckx while he's riding .Good to see the human side of this cycling madness.😊
What a climber Fuente was! So tragic that he died young of kidney disease.
Thanks for posting.
No pads or helmets just pure balls!!! That’s how I grew up riding my bicycle!!! :-)
Was that in the 1970s?
if so, your not wrong!
@@dylanwhitney9228 used to grab the back of the trucks while riding my bicycle and run at the truck’s speed!! I never fell because o never grabbed the handlebars while doing so. And when I wanted to let the truck go, I had to push me away from it and hold myself to the frame because the air drag would pull me back in!! Besides when I get the draft from the truck’s wind if I wasn’t holding myself to the frame, I’d risked to get blown out of the bicycle too!! Man there’s no rollercoaster that can give anyone’s hay rush!! This is all back in the 90’s!!! Couple of my friends got killed, others fell and got road rash throughout their whole body and so on!! I was born in the mid 70’s!!!
Den mest kedelige stemme nogensinde tilhører Jørgen Leth.
Han taler i samme toneleje hele filmen igennem.
(Ser den via Filmstriben. )
Filmen ville have været bedre uden den søvndyssende herre. Hvor ER han ufattelig kedelig at høre på!
my favourite video on youtube !!!!!
Love the stopping for refreshments at a road-side truck, incl beer
Today's grand tours are too much about money & fun
Priceless video from 73
Unbelievable, mud road back in the old days. I cycled in the dolomite in nicely paved road.
excellent dialogue, and music. poetry.
I think the riding interview should be brought back. Too funny😎
@ 8:31 Fuente is texting/checking his Facebook.
Ted Patterson 😂😂😂😂😂 back in the days they had a route book with directions, notes taken by themselves or their teams and the route maps !! He was posting in instagram also!! 😂😂😂😂
He was checking Strava KOM
He was also checking youtube comment section of this video.
37 kilometers in 46 minutes, thats exactly what Chris Froome needed for the 19th stage of the Vuelta 2016.
Respect even with an normal steelframe road bike so fast as Chris Froome on a hightech time trial machine.
barrylyndon80
You put Froome or Contador or Armstrong up against Merckx, all at their best, and all of them would have been fetching water for Eddy.
BARRYLINDON80. Yes and look at the road conditions , some are dirt tracks and also the total distances were longer for the tours back then too. The tours are about 600km /800km less now than in the 70s.
Champions in one era are usually considered to be worthy champions in another, but I agree with you. Merckx was from another planet. These guys would have carried his luggage.
Compare Merckx putting his own stamp on a race versus Froome getting towed up a mountain by his team - or by winning a grand tour without winning a stage.
Fantastic racing no one crashing they could ride there bikes in that day mutch better racing mutch better bike handling the old days the best
Eddy Merckx the greatest of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
+Eddy Merckx der Beste meh.
Herman Vogel
What do you mean
the narration throughout the time trial segment is outstanding
Eddy Merckx was Number One and will stay Number One for ever. Coppi was a very good runner, a campionissimo, but he was Number Two in history, or maybe Three or Four (Binda ? Bartali ? Hinault ?), we can discuss about that. The only completely certain point is this one : Eddy was the greatest. Final point. The one who says something else doesn't know anything about what he says.Stunning documentary even better the 'A Sunday In Hell' In my opinion. The interview at 20 minutes made my year. Total hardmen.
Scott Lindsey hmmm, in palmarès terms, there are 4 greats of the great: Binda, Coppi, Merckx & Hinault. But if they’d gone head to head? If Coppi got away, he might have stayed away. Merckx would prob have been mentally too tough for Coppi, but something tells me that Hinault might have gotten to him. And who knows what Binda might have done?
Coppi lost 5 years of his career to WW2. Also, Merckx rarely achieved the winning margins of Coppi.
@@Penfold-zr2be true
@justinexplainseverything1554 yes and he also raced cyclocross and track are different disciplines than road.
Ah! When they rode dirt roads in the mountains👍. Those were the days!
For some reason I enjoyed this part: 19:10 "Dissapointment looks like this. This is what a cyclist looks like when he has lost some of his illusions."
this was my favorite part too. extremely humbling if you race.
Martin P. Hoff It talks to your heart, doesn't it. :)
This video is Gold
Per giustificare l'affermazione della grandezza di Eddy Merckx, occorre elencare i nomi dei suoi avversari. Ocana, Zoetemelk, Thevenet, Van Impe, Gimondi, De Vlaeminck, Fuente, Moser, Petterson, Bitossi, Motta. La qualità dei corridori appena citati è molto elevata. Con quegli avversari Merckx ha vinto da professionista 445 corse e il Giro del 1973 è un esempio di dominio assoluto di Eddy.
Si è vero Merckx era troppo forte però Fuente lo staccava facilmente in salita, Onore al piccolo grande spagnolo che ci ha lasciati troppo presto assieme al magnifico Marco Pantani. Questi grandi atleti rendevano avvincenti Giro e Tour.
In altri miei interventi sul ciclismo più volte ho scritto che Fuente più che forte era straordinario in salita e non staccava facilmente solo Merckx ma tutti i corridori di allora. Eddy stesso ha sempre detto che per sua fortuna Fuente tatticamente correva male altrimenti sarebbero stati guai ben più grossi per il belga.... Vero però anche che nel 1973 Merckx si presentò al Giro in forma perfetta e dominò anche in salita (Carpegna e Andalo per distacco in maglia rosa). Fuente negli anni 1971-1972 e soprattutto 1974 in salita volava letteralmente, lo ricordo molto bene....
Ma per rendere onore alla grandezza di Fuente voglio ricordare il suo record che forse rimarrà per sempre. Le 5 vittorie per distacco in altrettante tappe si salita al Giro 1974 sono un qualcosa di eccezionale....avrebbe potuto eguagliare quel record Pantani nel 1999 se non ci fosse stato il fattaccio di Campiglio....
@@paolomagherini4347 Grazie di cuore per aver risposto al mio commento. Condivido i tuoi pareri. Si Fuente, temuto da Merckx, commetteva errori di strategia, e per questo perse uno giro e un tour. Però era un atleta genuino e simpatico. Ai tempi di Gimondi, Merckx, Fuente, Basso, Bitossi avevo meno di 20 anni, ero e sono un grande appassionato di ciclismo, correvo come un matto fin dal mattino sulle grandi alture per applaudire i nostri eroi. Devo dire che Manuel Fuente mi era particolarmente simpatico, forse perché l'unico in grado di sottrarre un Giro allo strapotere di Merckx, parlo sportivamente, questo per rendere meno noioso l'esito scontato della corsa. A quei tempi si discuteva chi poteva essere il più forte fra Coppi e Merckx, poi con Pantani chi poteva essere il più forte in salita fra Marco e Fuente. Penso che sarebbero arrivati alla pari (anche se da italiano dico Pantani). Questi due atleti ci hanno lasciato troppo presto, lasciando grandi rimpianti. Queste dibattiti hanno reso appassionante questo avvincente sport: il ciclismo.
Il mio tifo per Marco Pantani è stato totale. Non gli è stato consentito di terminare il Giro 99 e questo è stato un autentico crimine....Marco correndo la tappa di Aprica con il Mortirolo avrebbe potuto in maglia rosa rivincere per distacco ed avrebbe eguagliato Fuente con 5 vittorie per distacco nello stesso Giro. Il destino ha risposto picche a José Manuel e Marco, morti giovani ma anche per questo ancora più nella leggenda. Un ricordo per entrambi.....
After you watch this, check out the Cycling Podcast "Our Giro stage 3: Stars and Watercarriers" for an interview with Jorgen Leth. Also on RUclips - ruclips.net/video/zfgIrbCzRg8/видео.html
Doctor,I need a beer,I can't handle this anymore!
very good !!!!!
Love the classic hardcore
Wonderful
Merckx - half man, half bike!
@@TheEljamo17 , correction: two men, ALL bike! Cheers! ;-)
That's a Baaaad motor scooter
Correction: 100% man, 100% bike.
I had to adjust my tracking at 2:45.
Ritter was excellent!
The good old days
"There's another Belgium? Not just France but Italy as well!"
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(Ha Ha)
Slice of life tour details (feed zone, water stops at side of road) earlier.
Strategy for attacking opponents on hills around 51:00
great footage obviously but beautifully scripted and narrated. who is doing the narration?
"Pure Cycling Poetry" in descrbing the mind set in a time trial:.....at 31mins into the video
yes! that part is genius. My favorite part of the film.
Stunning documentary even better the 'A Sunday In Hell' In my opinion. The interview at 20 minutes made my year. Total hardmen.
24:39 A young Roger De Vlaeminck...
does anyone know the music in this? especially from @ 9:00 to @ 16:00
please id someone!
Wish I had 80% of Eddie's climbing power he had with the steel bikes and gearing . I would kick anybody's butt today with the compact cranks and the bigger 10 to 11 spd. gearing ! ;-)
Does anyone know the song at 16:00?
NO EPO! Or inhalers.... Pure beauty
Just some amphetamines, good old days ...
@@TerryWaitesRadiator Lmao
"pain as an icon"
Solid steel bikes. Imagine...
not solid
When I grew up I had one of those and I welded it myself couple of times lol I also true the frame after couple of falls and crashes and so on!! Those frames never died!! :-)
what is the name of the song that begins at 8:45?
all music is Original music made for the movie , made off Gunner Møller Pedersen
@@henrikhansen1716 thank you. any way to get hold of this fantastic OST?
I just wanted to watch a small portion, instead I saw the whole thing.
What I like about those days is the clothing, clean and basic with minimal adverts not like today festooned with awful advertising which detracts and looks cheap.
That's because they didn't have the synthetic fabrics and dye sublimation technology to allow them to have intricate designs, but I agree with you. Black shorts and no neon.
I also think the riders seemed more human and individual when their heads and faces weren't hidden by helmets and sunglasses. Now they look like aliens astride spaceships.
Fuente un classico scalatore, un danceur direbbero i francesi e non un passista, un gran bel corridore; but it was not that tough to gap Merckx on hard climbs. There's quite a long list of specialists who gave the belgian even huge gaps, one of best reasons of why he cant be ranked the best of all times, Fausto Coppi is
I better add , I want to keep my sprinters build and form to win on the flats also !!! ;-)
Looking at them you think my god this is so easy :)
Was Merckx clean?
I should imagine he washed and bathed on a regular basis
Was the peloton ever called 'the field' or a relay called 'a lead'?
Every time they had a Limey talk about it. Also a bike is a wheelie-dealie, a saddle is a situmupski, pedals are diddlers, the Tour is a circuit-go-round, a jersey is a jumperoo, well, I could go on...
His use of "lap" instead of "stage" when describing a point-to-point stage race is pretty freaking annoying, too.
Ouch, such a low cadence. Respect
Merckx at the top of his power. Gimondi in fine form. Sad Fuente not in good form and was shelled usually in the race. Main star appearance from Ole Ritter. Cameo from Roger de Vlaeminck, Santiago Lazcano, Joseph Bruyere, Jose Pesarrodona, Hennie Kuiper, Francesco Moser, Cochise Rodriguez, Wladimiro Panizza, Gösta Pettersson and others. Plus some DS likes Vittorio Adorni and Giorgio Albani.
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No helmets? Wow
That massage would be tickling me too much lol
this is what bike racing looks like when they are not all doped up with EPO
Not only amphetamines!! They were also on test and few other chemicals.. steroids go back to 1950s...
con biciclette in acciaio era in grado di fare miracoli. Provate voi stessi bici in acciaio, alluminio e carbonio. L'acciaio si deforma ad ogni pedalata sembra di pedalare sulla gomma. Uomini fortissimi tutti.
It is called Sars and Watercarriers….
In 1973 they should have low profile,lightweight etc bikes how remiss.lol
Merkx's Molteni team is the only team with any team tactics . Merkx is a bit " supernatural " n'est - ce- pas ?
It appears cycling fans have always been idiots running in front of riders to get photos. the only difference is that now it's on phones instead of cameras.
Started to watch Giro D'Italia after Chris Froome won the 2018
22:00 to 22:50 Hilarious!
La BElle Époque En Juin 1973 L Année Du Bœuf Et Dans Le Même Mois Du Giro Lee Jun Fan Était EncOrE Là. Willy
Its only one in every sport, Muhammed Ali, Franz Beckenbauer, Michael Schuhmacher Mark Spitz and Eddy Merxc.
Whose's Mark Spitz? Didnt you mean Ian Thorpe.?
@@raymondmenz522, I think you meant Michael Phelps.
Marciano, Pele, Senna, Phelps, Merckx.
You forgot McEnroe
@@TVMatriX-1001, you mean Federer? I might even suggest Sampras.
I dont understand why this starts with 1956. Mercx started in 1965.
Coppi 1940 & 1947? How many great riders were killed or injured because of WW1 & WW2?
It's the 56th Giro, not 1956.
dirt roads on road bike is nothing new... of course now the pros complain if they have to ride in the rain...
@John that makes you a pussy
Jezus pros ride fast . . . nothing different back then about that