Going Vertical
Going Vertical (Russian: Движение вверх, romanized: Dvizhenie vverkh, lit. 'Movement up'), also known as Three Seconds, is a 2017 Russian sports drama film directed by Anton Megerdichev about the 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final 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.
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Directed by | Anton Megerdichev |
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Cinematography | Igor Grinyakin |
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Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 133 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian, English, Lithuanian |
Budget | ₽450 million[1] ~$8 million |
Box office | ₽3 billion $60 million[2] |
Upon its release on December 28, 2017 by Central Partnership, Going Vertical achieved critical and commercial success. With a worldwide gross of $60 million, Going Vertical is the highest-grossing modern Russian film of all time.
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
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Vladimir Mashkov | Vladimir Garanzhin, head coach of the USSR national basketball team, re-named |
Viktoriya Tolstoganova | Ksenia Garanzhina, wife of Vladimir Garanzhin |
Nikita Yakovlev | Aleksandr (Shurka) Garanzhin, 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 Zaitsev | Sergei Belov, player of the USSR national basketball team (№ 10) |
Otar Lortkipanidze | Mikheil 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) |
Aleksandra Revenko | Aleksandra 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 |
Production
Filming
Principal photography began in August 2016, in Moscow.[3]
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.[4] Instead of filming a crowd of fans, advertising, and other attributes of the Munich match, the shooting technique used the "chromakey" technology.
Release
Premiere of the film took place on December 22, 2017 in the cinema "October" in Moscow.[5] The film was released in wide distribution in the Russian Federation on December 28, 2017.[6][7] The television premiere of the film took place on February 23, 2019, Defender of the Fatherland Day on the Russia-1 television channel.[8]
Marketing
In May 2017, a movie teaser trailer was released. The first trailer was released on June 14th.[9].
Reception
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[10] ($54 million), making the picture the higgest-grossing film in the history of modern Russian film distribution (post-Soviet era).[11][12][13][14] However, due to devaluation of Russian ruble against the US dollar in 2018 the final value of Russian box office after 43 weeks of distribution was only around $46.5 million.[2]
It also became the highest-grossing Russian film in China, where it grossed $13.2 million.[2][15] That brought the film's worldwide gross to $60 million.
Critical response
Even before the release of the film, it aroused sharp criticism from Evgenia Kondrashina and Aleksandra 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.[16][17]
On April 19, 2017, the mother and son of Kondrashina and Ovchinnikov filed against Studio "Three T Productions" by Nikita Mikhalkov in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow the claim “On the prohibition of the dissemination of information about private life”, which the plaintiffs were refused in satisfaction of by a court decision of September 4, 2017 (due to the fact that during the consideration of the case the defendant made changes to the scenario taking into account the circumstances set forth in the statement of claim).[18]
On January 10, 2018, in an interview with RBC media holding, Going Vertical, the director Anton Megerdichev said that he talked several times with Kondrashina and Ovchinnikova and after talking with them he had the feeling that they understood each other, but at the same time time, he got the impression that they "agreed on something". Megerdichev also said that he treats the characters of the film with “such respect as one can imagine,” and also said the following: “Not a single person who did the Going Vertical intended to offend and insult ... And, on the contrary, elevate and make the heroes of the team, and they went all the way to the last to find some kind of contact [with relatives]”.[19]
On January 25, 2018, Kondrashina and Ovchinnikova in an interview with Rosbalt confirmed that they had met with the creators of the tape. However, according to Ovchinnikova, the relatives initially answered them that they were against the approval of this scenario: “Tears? Emotions? They have achieved this. But there is no historical truth there”, said Ovchinnikova.[20]
Awards and prizes
On January 6, 2018, the film received the Golden Quarter movie award from the site of the independent film magazine 25th Frame in the 2017 Best Russian Film nomination.
On February 15, 2018, at the Chart Dozen Award ceremony, the creators and actors of the film Going Vertical received an award in the special upcoming movement Upward from the hands of the Hero of Russia cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky.
On January 27, 2019, the film won the Golden Eagle Award for 2018 in the nominations for Best Actor in a Movie, Vladimir Mashkov, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Kirill Zaitsev (ru), Best Cinematography Igor Grinyakin (ru), Best Film Editing (Petr Zelenov, Anton Megerdichev, Vazgen Kahramanyan), “The Best Work of the Sound Engineer” Aleksey Samodelko, “The Best Visual Effects” (CGF Studio).
See also
- Legend No. 17 (2013 film)
References
- «Движение вверх» стал самым кассовым фильмом российского кинопроката. rbc.ru, 01.13.2018 (in Russian)
- Dvizhenie Vverh. Box Office Mojo, 2019
- Alperina, Susanna (August 10, 2016). "«Три золотых секунды». — В Москве начались съёмки фильма о невероятной победе российских баскетболистов на Олимпиаде в Мюнхене в 1972 году" [“Three golden seconds.” - In Moscow, the filming of the film about the incredible victory of Russian basketball players at the Olympics in Munich in 1972 began.]. Rossiyskaya Gazeta // rg.ru (in Russian).
- "Художественный фильм «Движение вверх» (Россия, 2017 год). Описание, интересные факты, новости, рецензии" [“Feature film Movement up / Going Vertical (Russia, 2017). Description, interesting facts, news, reviews.]. KinoAfisha.info (in Russian).
- "ВИДЕО. Это победа кино и спорта»: первые зрители о фильме «Движение вверх»" [VIDEO. This is a victory for film and sports”: the first viewers about the film Movement up.]. Russia-1 (in Russian). December 22, 2017.
- Chachelov, Arthur. "Обзор изменений графика релизов c 1 по 15 января 2017 года" [Overview of release schedule changes from January 1 to January 15, 2017]. Distributor Newsletter (in Russian).
- Tyrkin, Stas (December 28, 2017). "«Легенда № 18». — 28 декабря 2017 года премьера главного блокбастера новогодних праздников — «Движение вверх»" ["The legend number 18". - December 28, 2017 the premiere of the main blockbuster of the New Year holidays - Movement up.]. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" // kp.ru (in Russian).
- Alperina, Susanna (February 13, 2019). "Канал "Россия 1" объявил дату телепремьеры фильма "Движение вверх"" [Channel "Russia-1" announced the date of the television premiere of the film Movement up.]. Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian).
- Художественный фильм «Движение вверх» (Россия, 2017 год) — Трейлер 1 (HD) on YouTube
- Going Vertical on Russian Cinema Fund's Analytics
- "International Box Office Surprises of 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- "Film about US v USSR basketball final breaks Russian record". The Guardian.
- "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. January 13, 2018.
- ‘Three Seconds’: Olympic Basketball Drama Is Russia’s Highest-Grossing Movie Ever
- Barraclough, Leo (3 July 2019). "'Three Seconds' Becomes Highest Grossing Russian Film Ever in China (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- Genkin, David (December 25, 2017). "Вдовы Владимира Кондрашина и Александра Белова возмущены фильмом «Движение вверх». — Они считают, что его авторы оскорбили память великих тренера и баскетболиста" [The widows of Vladimir Kondrashin and Alexander Belov are outraged by the film Going Vertical. - They believe that its authors insulted the memory of the great coach and basketball player.]. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in St. Petersburg // spb.kp.ru (in Russian).
- "Вдовы спортсменов подали в суд на студию Никиты Михалкова. — Им не понравился сценарий фильма «Движение вверх»" [The widows of the athletes sued the studio of Nikita Mikhalkov. They didn’t like the script for the Going Vertical.]. REGNUM News Agency (in Russian). December 24, 2017.
- "Пресненский районный суд города Москвы. Информация по делу № 02-4812/2017" [Presnensky District Court of the city of Moscow. Information on the case No. 02-4812 / 2017.]. Moscow City Court (in Russian).
- Nemchenko, Ilya (January 10, 2018). "Режиссёр «Движения вверх» ответил на критику вдов героев фильма" [The director of Going Vertical responded to criticism of the widows of the heroes of the film]. RBC Group (in Russian).
- "«Жека, наши выиграли!»" ["Zheka, ours won!"]. Rosbalt (in Russian). January 25, 2018.