Eleven Silent Men

Eleven Silent Men (2022)

Одиннадцать молчаливых мужчин

Tells about the events of November 1945 when the first Post War championship of the USSR winners, Dynamo-Moscow, went on the historic tour of Britain. Soviet football players won not only on the football fields of England. They managed to win the hearts of the English audience, transforming the view created by the Western press and propaganda about the Russian people and the Soviet country.

Date of release
2022-02-17
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (10)
Runtime
2h 1m
Genres
Drama
Director
Aleksey Pimanov

Casting

Interesting facts

Eleven Silent Men is a 2022 Russian sports drama film directed by Alexey Pimanov's company Pimanov and partners. The film is the story of the legendary trip of Soviet football players "FC Dynamo Moscow" who came to Great Britain in November 1945 to play famous English football clubs. It was with this epithet that British journalists dubbed Soviet athletes in the press. The film stars Makar Zaporozhsky, Pavel Trubiner, Roman Kurtsyn, Andrey Chernyshov, Evgeniya Lapova, Alyona Kolomina, and Dmitry Belotzerkovsky joining the cast.

Production

Especially for each actor playing a football player, a uniform was sewn, completely identical to the equipment of the athletes of 1945. A soccer ball and boots were recreated, made to order: with special carnations on which spikes were attached.

Principal photography began in September 2019 and took place in Moscow, the municipal city of Pavlovsk and Pushkin to the city of Saint Petersburg, the city of Kaluga, Russia, and London, United Kingdom.

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