Three Seconds

2017
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Title: Three Seconds

Original Title: Dvizhenie vverkh

Year: 2017

Info

Release Dates

  • United States: February 01 2019

Plot

'Three seconds' tells the story of how the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Basket Team prepared itself to try to defeat the United States Basket Team in the titanic match that faced them in the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972.

Vladimir Garanzhin is a basket trainer who is hired to form the USSR Basket Team so they can compete in the Olympic Games in Munich in a high level. Meanwhile, the United States Basket Team is the big favorite of the competition. So, as it is well-known, the Cold War is stablished between two countries, so this is a huge duel and the USSR doesn't want to lose at all. After a lot of training, Garanzhin sees that his team is so much ready and can defeat the hegemony of the Americans.

When the match of discord finally is played and it is close to the end of it, the United States Basket Team is already celebrating its victory because they did not think that no one could score in the last three seconds. However, the match has an unexpected twist when the USSR Basket Team scores in that short period of time. This will not only change the result of the match, but also will modify the history of basketball as we know it forever.

The movie is directed by Anton Megerdichev ('Boy s tenyu II. Revansh', 'Temnyy mir', 'Metro').

Cast

Director:

Anton Megerdichev Anton Megerdichev

Vladimir Mashkov

Vladimir Mashkov

Vladimir Garanzhin

John Savage

John Savage

Hank Aiba

Marat Basharov

Marat Basharov

Tereschenko

Sergey Garmash

Sergey Garmash

Sergey Pavlov

Aleksandra Revenko

Aleksandra Revenko

Aleksandra Ovchinnikova

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Trivia

Complains before the premiere

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

Change of names

The widow of Vladimir Kondrashin complained to the movie's production team regarding the portrayal of her husband and spreading information about his life. The director Megerdichev said that he talked to her assuming that everything was agreed. Therefore the name of the team's coach is named Garanzhin and not Kondrashin. A similar issue, only without big changes, happened also with the widow of the player Alexander Belov.

Audience and chroma

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. Instead of a crowd of fans, advertising and other attributes of the Munich match, the shooting technique used the "chromakey" technology.

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