Legend No. 17

Legend No. 17 (2013)

Легенда №17

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

Date of release
2013-04-17
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (157)
Runtime
2h 14m
Genres
Drama
Director
Nikolay Lebedev

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: RUB 922.6M
  • Budget: €10M
  • Filmed in: Minsk-Arena and Babruysk
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Golden Eagle Awards

Legend No. 17 is a 2013 Russian biographical sports film directed by Nikolai Lebedev and produced by Trite Studio. The film is based on real events and tells of the rise to fame of the Soviet hockey player Valeri Kharlamov and about the first match of the Summit Series USSR — Canada 1972.

Production

When the script of "Legend No. 17" was being developed, the feature film by Yuri Korolev "Valeri Kharlamov. Additional Time" aired on television which was sharply criticized by Valeri's son, Alexander Kharlamov, who collaborated with the authors of "No. 17".

The filming period of the picture was 74 days. All the scenes in Spain were shot in 4 days.

A number of locations shown in the film which truly existed at one time or at present were filmed elsewhere. The CSKA Ice Palace is Kristall Ice Sports Palace in Elektrostal near Moscow. In the "role" of the famous Montreal Forum was the Minsk-Arena, during the construction of which some architectural solutions were used of the Canadian arena, according to the producer of the film.

For the airport building in the film the Moscow City Palace of Children's Creativity on Vorobyovy Gory was used.

Shooting of the matches of the 1972 Olympic Games hockey tournament in Sapporo took place in Belarus, on the ice arena of the city of Babruysk.

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