Skywalkers: A Love Story -- The True Story Of Rooftoppers Ivan Beerkus & Angela Nikolau

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The True Story Of Rooftoppers Ivan Beerkus & Angela Nikolau
ScreenRant.com | Jack Ori | July 19,2024

Skywalkers: A Love Story is a Netflix documentary focused on the true story of Russian rooftopper couple Ivan Beerkus and Angela Nikolau. The film, which is one of Netflix's best movies of 2024, is partially about two people who have enjoyed the cultural phenomenon of "rooftopping," or illegally climbing buildings, their entire lives. Rooftopping appeals to people who enjoy taking extreme risks, and the movie allows viewers to vicariously experience it through breathtaking shots and access to Beerkus and Nikolau's thoughts.

Although Beerkus and Nikolau contributed drone footage of their climbing expeditions that will satisfy people searching for action series on Netflix, the documentary is far more than a chronicle of the couple's adventures. For Beerkus and Nikolau, climbing is an art form that reflects their desire to live their lives fully. The documentary tells the story of how this extraordinary couple fell in love and celebrate life together through their dedication to climbing; the couple's climbs cannot be separated from their personalities or their relationship with each other.

Beerkus and Nikolau are both Moscow-born climbers who have been engaging in the activity since they were teenagers, with Nikolau's background as a circus acrobat coming in handy as they climb buildings together. Beerkus got media attention before he and Nikolau met; in 2014, Nikolau followed his Instagram account where he was documenting the Stalin-era buildings he was climbing in Russia. Although she was not yet famous, Nikolau was also climbing buildings on her own during this period. She and Nikolau first connected online before beginning to climb buildings together...more
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Amazing.

[madaboutharry]

1. This movie must be incredibly interesting.

The problem is that I have such a deep fear of heights I got dizzy just reading this post about it.

[Ocelot II]

3. Same here. A great big NOPE from me.

I don't even like driving over bridges (oddly, though, I love flying).

[lapfog_1]

2. adrenaline junkies

I once had a co-worker who was a "free climber"... the people that scale difficult cliffs and near vertical rock formations using only their hands and feet... no ropes, no harness, no carabiners and hammers, etc. just them, a bag of chalk, and possibly shoes.

He told me that, eventually, people retire from the sport when they have other responsibilities or they die.

There is no room for even 1 mistake.

I don't get it... and I have been a technical mountain climber throughout my late teens and early twenties. Never one of the extreme people, but I did scale a few dozen of the over 14K feet peaks when I lived in Colorado. But I guess it's what they want to do.

[bif]

4. Terrified of heights.

Gonna have to pass. I don't mind being way up in a skyscraper. Just not out in the open.