芬兰纪录片导演Arto Halonen的首部短片，黑白。 Runtime in Minutes: 57 min Language: Finnish With English Sub Country: Finland Color: Black and White Cast: Tarmo Uusivirta Mikko Saarikko Ringside is dramatized documentary about a boxer preparing for the last fight of his life which turns out to be a fight with himself, too. It is about the life of a boxer, the fierce ambition and the madness of it all, and the strange beauty that is also a part of it. After drifting to the verge of suicide in his private life, the hero has found new happines, and this determines the way of his last fight. At the most crucial moment of his career he decides that life is more important, after all. Born in 1964, Arto Halonen has directed and written films since 1983. His breakthrough was the fictionalized documentary Ringside (1992), which won the main prize at the Slovenian International Golden Shot and the Finnish state's Quality Production Award in 1993. He directed the feature comedy The Happy Wedding Day (1993) and the critically acclaimed Home (1995), for the Finnish broadcasting company YLE.