The Ice King

The documentary takes up John Curry. Curry was a figure skater. He brought what he did close to dance. That approach was not the usual one at the time. He won a gold medal at the 1976 winter Olympics. The competition was held at Innsbruck. That same night a report came out. A journalist wrote that he was gay. Curry did not deny it. So he became the first Olympian to be openly gay. In those years that was not an easy thing. Archive footage of Curry is used in the documentary. Some of it had not been shown before. His letters are read in it as well. His family and his colleagues speak as well. James Erskine directed the eighty eight minute documentary. The British production was finished in 2018.