Beyond the Game

6.9 / 10

(10 votes)

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.

Country:

Netherlands

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

71 minutes

Year:

2008

Director:

Jos de Putter

Cast:
Fredrik Johansson

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Manuel Schenkhuizen

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Yoan Merlo

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Li Xiaofeng

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Crew:
Wink de Putter

Producer

Sander Vos

Editor

Paul M. van Brugge

Original Music Composer

Richard Van Oosterhout

Director of Photography

Vladas Naudžius

Director of Photography