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Beyond the Game (2008)

1h 11m

Running Time

November 21, 2008
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Beyond the Game (2008)

Name: Beyond the Game
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-11-21

1h 11m

Running Time

November 21, 2008
Release Date

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Plot.

Warcraft III is the most popular real-time strategy computer game, thrilling over 2.5 million North Americans and 10 million people worldwide everyday. The game creates an alternate universe, where players challenge each other with a mythically-charged online world of humans, orcs, the undead, knights, and elves. In Beyond the Game, we meet - in real life and within the game - two of the game's leading figures, known as Grubby and Sky. Acclaimed filmmaker Jos de Putter tracks these Kasparovs of a new generation and a new game across the world all the way to the world championships in Seattle. A fascinating, surprising, and genuinely touching portrait, Beyond the Game is a study of, and participation in, the reformation of our communities in the internet age.

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Cast & Crew.

Fredrik Johansson

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Manuel Schenkhuizen

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Jos de

Director

Yoan Merlo

Himself

Li Xiaofeng

Himself

Sander Vos

Editor

Wink de Putter

Producer

Paul M. van Brugge

Original Music Composer

Vladas Naudžius

Director of Photography

Richard Van Oosterhout

Director of Photography

Jacko van 't Hof

Director of Photography

Jos de Putter

Writer / Director

Details.

Release Date
November 21, 2008

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 11m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

Beyond the Game is a 2008 Dutch documentary film about the world of professional video gaming, particularly of the game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne featuring world champion players Chinese Xiaofeng "Sky" Li, Dutch Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen and Swede Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson prominently. It is directed by award-winning Dutch documentary filmmaker Jos de Putter. Filming took place in China, France, The Netherlands, United States and Sweden. Languages spoken in the documentary include Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Standard Chinese and Korean.

Beyond the Game is the motto of the World Cyber Games, which is central to the documentary as the main characters compete to defend or regain the event's championship title at the global finals of the 2007 World Cyber Games in Seattle, Washington.

It has premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in Pathé de Munt, and had the cinema premiere in Pathé Tuschinski, and has now been released in cinemas throughout The Netherlands.