Three Seconds

Three Seconds (2017)

Движение вверх

The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.

Date of release
2017-12-28
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (187)
Runtime
2h 13m
Genres
Drama
Director
Anton Megerdichev

Casting

  • Vladimir Mashkov — тренер сборной СССР Владимир Гаранжин
  • Ivan Kolesnikov — игрок сборной СССР Александр Белов
  • Viktoriya Tolstoganova — жена Владимира Ксения Гаранжина
  • Marat Basharov — чиновник Госкомспорта Терещенко
  • Andrey Smolyakov — Григорий Моисеев (председатель Федерации баскетбола СССР)
  • Sergey Garmash — председатель Госкомспорта Сергей Павлов
  • John Savage — тренер сборной США Генри Айба
  • Andrius Paulavičius — литовский водитель Йонас
  • Aleksandra Revenko — баскетболистка Александра Свешникова
  • Jay Bowdy — игрок сборной США Майкл Бэнтон
  • Oliver Morton — игрок сборной США Даг Коллинз
  • Žilvinas Tratas — игрок сборной СССР Модестас Паулаускас

Interesting facts

  • Box office: RUB 1B
  • Budget: RUB 450M
  • Earned 2.3× its budget
  • Filmed in: Moscow

Going Vertical, also known as Three Seconds 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.

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.

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

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