The Other Dream Team is a documentary film directed by Marius A. Markevičius. The inspirational story of the 1992 Lithuania national basketball team
and their incredible journey from the clutches of Communism to the
Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It stars many famous basketball persons
like Yao Ming, Arvydas Sabonis, David Stern, Jim Lampley, Bill Walton, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Pau Gasol and others.
Director: Marius A. Markevicius
Writers: Jon Weinbach, Marius A. Markevicius
Stars: Sarunas Marciulionis, Arvydas Sabonis and Rimas Kurtinaitis
Led by the unique skills of Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis,
the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team helped their country break
free from the shackles of Communism. After leading the USSR to a gold
medal (and victory over the U.S.A.) at the '88 Seoul Olympics,
Marciulionis and Sabonis were poster boys for the Soviet sports machine.
Four year later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, they emerged as
symbols of democracy, willing newly-independent Lithuania to the medal
stand in
Barcelona. The film
documents the Lithuanians' experiences behind the Iron Curtain, where
elite athletes were subjected to the vagaries of Communist rule.
