Main actor in the feature documentary film: The competition of my lifetime

Imprisoned by the apparatus of fear. Tortured, humiliated, broken - and yet not defeated. After weeks of imprisonment and psychological torture, GDR competitive swimmer Axel Mitbauer is robbed of everything: his freedom, his future, his sport. But on a desperate night in August 1969, he defies the regime - and throws himself into the icy Baltic Sea. He swam 25 kilometers through darkness and death with only one goal: freedom.