ADAMS ACHT

ADAM’S EIGHT recounts the sporting sensation that unfolded at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games when the so-called ‘rowing professor’ Karl Adam and his eight-man crew won the gold medal for Germany. Just four years earlier, such a triumph would have seemed inconceivable. The rowers had struggled not only with physical limitations, but also with old questions of guilt, Adam‘s involvement in National Socialism as well as the shadow of the Cold War.

Adam was initially ridiculed for his unconventional ideas, technical innovations and novel training methods, but he sees something in his team that no one else recognises. And some even try to sabotage his success. The road to Rome is not an easy one...