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The Swimmers
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1553
- IMDb #1341
- Google retired #129
- Metacritic #2853
- Letterboxd #1503
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1878
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- Metacritic Critics #2294
- Metacritic Audience #3761
- Criticker #1790
- Kinopoisk #2382
- AlloCiné #484
- Trakt #200
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Google on 96.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Based on a true story, two Syrian sisters are trained swimmers with Olympic dreams. When their country is torn apart by war, their training pool is destroyed. They embark on a perilous journey from Syria to Turkey and eventually to Europe as refugees. Their incredible willpower and bond as sisters drives them to overcome impossible obstacles in pursuit of their goal to compete on the world stage.
Details
- Director
- Sally El Hosaini
- Writer
- Jack Thorne
- Studio
- Working Title
- Released
- 8 September 2022
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| British Academy Film Awards 2023 | Outstanding British Film | The Swimmers | Nominee |
| Cinema for Peace Awards 2023 | Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year 2023 | The Swimmers | Nominee |
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| Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year 2023 | The Swimmers | Nominee |