Going Vertical

Going Vertical
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anton Megerdichev
Produced by	Jeremy Elliott Anatoly Fradis Nikita Mikhalkov Leonid Vereshchagin
Screenplay by	Nikolay Kulikov Andrey Kureychik
Starring	Vladimir Mashkov Andrey Smolyakov Ivan Kolesnikov Kirill Zaitsev James Tratas Sergei Garmash Marat Basharov Viktoriya Tolstoganova Aleksandra Revenko John Savage Oliver Morton
Cinematography	Igor Grinyakin
Edited by	Petr Zelenov
Production company	Three T Productions
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release date	December 28, 2017 (2017-12-28) (Russia)
Running time	133 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian English
Budget	$11,500,000 dollars
Box office	$53,876,764 dollars[1]

Going Vertical (aka "Three seconds", Russian: Движение вверх, translit. Dvizhenie vverkh) 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 Olympics.

Upon its release on December 28, 2017, Going Vertical achieved critical and commercial success. With an initial worldwide gross of over ₽3.030 billion (53,87 million US dollars), Going Vertical was the highest-grossing domestic film of all time in Russia.^[2][3][4]

Plot

The year 1970. The Soviet national basketball team is changing the head coach. The new coach Vladimir Garanzhin, who previously headed the Leningrad BC Spartak, said at a press conference that at the upcoming Olympic Games in Munich is going to beat the U.S. team. The statements of the coach frighten sports officials, for whom the main thing is to perform strongly at the world's biggest sporting stage in the year of the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union and keep their posts.

Vladimir Garanzhin completely changes the composition of the team and now the team is not dominated by CSKA Moscow players, but the players from many other clubs of the country. Garanzhin begins training with a new technique; he needs to inspire the team and convince the players that they can beat the American team.

The night from 9 to 10 September 1972. The city of Munich, which survived a terrorist attack three days ago, continues to host sports competitions. There comes the long-awaited finale of the XX Olympic Summer Basketball Tournament. The final teams, as planned by Garanzhin, are the USSR and U.S. teams. To the decisive meeting, both teams are unbeaten. And the outcome of the dramatic final match will be decided in the last three seconds of the match...

Cast

Production

Even before the release of the film, he aroused sharp criticism from Yevgenia Kondrashina and Aleksandra 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, including information about it in the script without their consent.

On April 19, 2017, the mother and son of Kondrashina and Ovchinnikov filed for Studio "TriTe" Nikita Mikhalkov in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow lawsuit" on the prohibition of the dissemination of information about private life, "the satisfaction of which by a court decision of September 4, 2017 plaintiffs were refused (due to the fact that during the consideration of the case the defendant made changes in the scenario taking into account the circumstances stated in the statement of claim).

Reception

See also

• Legend № 17 (2013 film)

References

External links

• Going Vertical on IMDb