For Indy Film Fest showtimes, click here. Long before Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson suited up for the so-called Dream Team to romp through the 1992 Olympics like a runaway rhino, there was another amazing basketball team. Instead of being made up of the titans of the sport playing for the country that invented it, the 1935 Latvian team was a bunch of nobodies from a nation that had very little reputation in international competition. The fact that they won the EuroBasket 1935 title makes the film about their odyssey more of a European “Hoosiers” than anything else.
Dream Team 1935
Dream Team 1935
Dream Team 1935
For Indy Film Fest showtimes, click here. Long before Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson suited up for the so-called Dream Team to romp through the 1992 Olympics like a runaway rhino, there was another amazing basketball team. Instead of being made up of the titans of the sport playing for the country that invented it, the 1935 Latvian team was a bunch of nobodies from a nation that had very little reputation in international competition. The fact that they won the EuroBasket 1935 title makes the film about their odyssey more of a European “Hoosiers” than anything else.