Rodnina

Rodnina (2025)

Роднина

On the advice of doctors, Irina's parents send their daughter to figure skating classes so that she gets stronger and gains strength, but Irina finds her dream and purpose in the sport. Completely absorbed by her incredible determination and complete dedication, Irina ends up in the CSKA figure skating school, where what distinguishes her from other athletes is fully revealed - incredible fortitude and thirst for victory.

Date of release
2025-03-06
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Konstantin Statskiy

Casting

Interesting facts

Rodnina is a 2025 Russian biographical sports drama film directed by Konstantin Statskiy. The film is based on Irina Rodnina's autobiographical memoirs "The Tear of a Champion", published in 2013. The strong cast was joined by Vladislava Samokhina, Ivan Kolesnikov, Yevgeny Tkachuk, Fedor Fedotov, Daniil Vorobyov, and many others.

Production

For artistic purposes, some of the surnames of real people from the world of sports have been changed. So the legendary coach Stanislav Zhuk became Zhukov, Alexey Ulanov, paired with whom Irina Rodnina won Olympic gold in 1972 in Sapporo, turned into Mikhail Bulanov, and the rivals of the Rodnina-Ulanov sports pair Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, according to the will of the screenwriters, began to receive the names Belova and Pankratov.

Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin plays a cameo role as American coach John Nix, who helped the pair of Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner win the 1979 World Championships and become favorites for the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, but withdrew from the competition after suffering an injury during warm-up.

Filming took place in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Pervouralsk.

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