A modern tale of heroes - only without being a tale

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2015)

I'm Austrian.
Watching Austrian Television I saw Niki Lauda more often in Television then Michael Schuhmacher and David Hasselhoff combined.
I have heard the story. Still I never understood why we considered him a hero just for having won some races and wasting his face while doing so.
Now I know.
If this would not have been a real story, I would have considered it "too much". Too much pathos. Too many coincidences. Too much everything. I would have considered the actions of the actors to be irrational. Claim, nobody would act like them in real life.
But so they did. And for this, they really are heroes.
Great movie, with excellent pictures and Hans Zimmer Soundtrack (no superlative needed). Direction was great, and even though the story was exaggerated at points and even though I was aware of that, it didn't matter.