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Going Vertical
Three Seconds
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnton Megerdichev
Screenplay by
  • Nikolay Kulikov
  • Andrey Kureychik
Produced by
  • Leonid Vereshchagin
  • Anton Zlatopolsky
  • Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Vladimir Vasiliev
  • Aleksey Dubinin
  • Yekaterina Yakovleva
  • Sergei Gurevich
  • Aleksandr Utkin
Starring
CinematographyIgor Grinyakin
Edited by
  • Petr Zelenov
  • Anton Megerdichev
  • Vazgen Kagramanyan
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • 28 December 2017 (2017-12-28) (Russia)
Running time
133 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguagesRussian
English
Budget$11.5 million
Box office$66.3 million

Going Vertical, also known as Three Seconds (Russian: Движение вверх, romanized: Dvizhenie vverkh) is a 2017 Russian sports drama film directed by Anton Megerdichev about the controversial victory of the Soviet national basketball team over the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, ending their 63-game winning streak, at the Munich Summer Olympic's men's basketball tournament.

Upon its release on December 28, 2017, Going Vertical achieved critical and commercial success. With a worldwide gross of $66.3 million, Going Vertical was the highest-grossing modern Russian film of all time at the time of release.

Plot

The year was 1970. The senior men's Soviet Union national basketball team had changed its head coach. The team's new head coach, Vladimir Garanzhin (Vladimir Kondrashin), who was also the head coach of the Leningrad based BC Spartak basketball club, of the USSR Premier League; said at a press conference that at the Munich Summer Olympic Games, the Soviet Union was going to beat the U.S. men's national basketball team. The statements of the coach frightened Soviet sports officials, for whom their main goal was to perform strongly at the world's biggest sporting stage, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union, and keep their posts.

Vladimir Garanzhin completely changed the composition of the Soviet team, and it was no longer dominated by CSKA Moscow players, but instead the players from several different clubs of the country. Garanzhin also began training the team with new coaching techniques; he needed to inspire the team, and convince the players that they could beat the American team.

It was the night of 9 to 10 September 1972. The city of Munich, which had survived a terrorist attack three days earlier, had continued to host sports competitions at the Summer Olympic Games. The long-awaited finale of the XX Olympic Summer Basketball Tournament had finally arrived. The two final teams, as had been predicted by Garanzhin, were the USSR and U.S. teams. Up to the decisive game, both teams were unbeaten. And the outcome of the dramatic final match was decided in the last three seconds of the game...

Cast

Actors Summer Olympic Games
Vladimir Mashkov Vladimir Garanzhin, head coach of the USSR national basketball team, re-named
Viktoriya Tolstoganova Evgenia Garanzhina, wife of Vladimir Garanzhin
Nikita Yakovlev Shurka, son of Vladimir Garanzhin
Andrey Smolyakov Grigorii Moiseev, assistant head coach of the USSR team
Sergei Garmash Sergei Pavlov, Chairman of the State Committee for Sport of the USSR
Marat Basharov Gennadii Tereshenko, functionary, member of the USSR State Committee for Sports
James Tratas Modestas Paulauskas, captain of the USSR national basketball team (№5)
Irakli Mikava Zurab Sakandelidze, player of the USSR national basketball team (№6)
Aleksandr Ryapolov Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, player of the USSR national basketball team (№7)
Egor Klimovich Aleksandr Boloshev, player of the USSR national basketball team (№8)
Kuzma Saprykin Ivan Edeshko, player of the USSR national basketball team (№9)
Kirill Zaytsev Sergei Belov, player of the USSR national basketball team (№10)
Otar Lortkipanidze Mikhail Korkia, player of the USSR national basketball team (№11)
Ivan Kolesnikov Alexander Belov, player of the USSR national basketball team (№14)
Ivan Orlov Sergei Kovalenko, player of the USSR national basketball team (№15)
Alexandra Revenko Alexandra Ovchinnikova, the bride of Alexander Belov
John Savage Henry "Hank" Iba
Jay Bowdy Mike Bantom
Oliver Morton Doug Collins
Sheila M. Lockhart African American Pedestrian
Chidi Ajufo Jim Brewer
Andrius Paulavicius Jonas
Isaiah Jarel Jimmy
Konstantin Shpakov Tony Jameson, American basketball player
Aleksandr Gromov basketball player
Daniil Soldatov Mike, reporter
Oleg Lebedev Ranko Žeravica, coach of the Yugoslav national team
Aleksey Malashkin Aleksandr Gomelsky, coach of the USSR men's basketball team
Nataliya Kurdyubova Nina Yeryomina, a Soviet sports commentator
Kibwe Trim Dwight Jones, an American basketball player

Production

Even before the release of the film, it aroused sharp criticism from Yevgenia Kondrashina and Alexandra Ovchinnikova (widows of Vladimir Kondrashin and Alexander Belov), and Yuri Kondrashin (son of Vladimir Petrovich). In their opinion, the authors of the film plunged into their private lives, and included information about it in the script without their consent.

Filming

Principal photography began in August 2016, in Moscow.

The last scenes of the film - the scenes of the final match of the 1972 Olympic Games basketball tournament, between the USSR and the US national teams - were filmed in the first filming days.[1] Instead of filming a crowd of fans, advertising, and other attributes of the Munich match, the shooting technique used the "chromakey" technology.

Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews in the Russian press. Enthusiastic reviews were published by Arguments and Facts, Gazeta.ru, KG-Portal, moderately positive reviews by Novaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Meduza, Esquire, Film.ru, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Trud and Poster. Anton Dolin, in his review, noted that Going Vertical" is "a truly sports film that takes teamwork and coherence more than someone's individual talent or charisma".,[2][3][4][5] КГ-Портал[6][7][8]

Box office

According to the United Federal Automated Information System on Movie Screenings in Cinema Halls (UAIS), the gross of the film, as of 2018, amounted to more than ₽2.9 billion[9] ($54 million), making the picture the higgest-grossing film in the history of modern Russian film distribution (post-Soviet era).[10][11][12][13]

It also became the highest-grossing Russian film in China, where it grossed CN¥85 million ($12.3 million).[14] That brought the film's worldwide gross to $66.3 million.

See also

References

  1. ^ Going Vertical, 2017
  2. ^ "Рецензии на фильм «Движение вверх» (2017), отзывы". Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  3. ^ Движение вверх (2017) отзывы о фильме Archived 2021-04-11 at the Wayback Machine — Мегакритик
  4. ^ «Движение вверх». Этот фильм слишком крут, чтобы быть похожим на правду Archived 2021-06-05 at the Wayback Machine | Аргументы и Факты
  5. ^ «Газета.Ru» о фильме «Движение вверх» Archived 2020-10-28 at the Wayback Machine — Газета.Ru
  6. ^ Рецензия на фильм «Движение вверх» (2017) Archived 2020-10-25 at the Wayback Machine | КГ-Портал
  7. ^ "3 секунды и 2 миллиарда. "Движение вверх" уже точно соберёт рекордную для российского кино кассу, обогнав "Последнего богатыря" - почему все его смотрят?". Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Легенда No. 18. 28 декабря премьера главного блокбастера новогодних праздников - "Движение вверх"". Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  9. ^ Going Vertical on Russian Cinema Fund's Analytics
  10. ^ "International Box Office Surprises of 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  11. ^ "Film about US v USSR basketball final breaks Russian record". TheGuardian.com. 18 January 2018.
  12. ^ ‘Going Vertical’ becomes Russia’s highest-grossing domestic release ever Film about US v USSR basketball final breaks Russian record Going Vertical, portraying Soviet victory at 1972 Olympics, is Russia’s highest-grossing movie, TASS
  13. ^ ‘Three Seconds’: Olympic Basketball Drama Is Russia’s Highest-Grossing Movie Ever
  14. ^ Barraclough, Leo (3 July 2019). "'Three Seconds' Becomes Highest Grossing Russian Film Ever in China (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
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