''Girls Got Game'' (russian: Нефутбол, Nefutbol, lit=Non-football) is a 2021 Russian
sports comedy film
A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport, sporting event, athlete (and their sport), or follower of sport (and the spor ...
directed by Maksim Sveshnikov.
It was theatrically released in Russia on September 1, 2021, by Nashe Kino (English: Our Cinema).
Plot
Dasha "Danya" Belykh was told from childhood that football is not a woman's business, but she still became the captain of the football team. Here are just her team unexpectedly gathered to close. Only victory can save them. And Danya decides to gather her childhood friends, with whom she played football at school. It turns out to be not so easy, and then there is a coach - a former "star" with problems, who does not consider women's football to be football at all ... But having sent self-doubt, excess weight and problems on the personal front to the bench, the girls are eager to win not only in sports, but also in life.
Cast
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Lyubov Aksyonova
Lyubov Pavlovna Aksyonova, (russian: link=no, Любовь Павловна Аксёнова; born March 15, 1990) is a Russian actress.
Biography
Aksyonova was born in Moscow. She studied at '' Russian Institute of Theatre Arts''. In 2012 sh ...
as Dasha "Danya" Belykh, captain of the football team
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Egor Koreshkov
Egor Aleksandrovich Koreshkov (russian: Его́р Алекса́ндрович Корешко́в; born March 31, 1986) is a Russian actor. He appeared in over 50 films.
Biography
Egor was born on March 31, 1986 into a family of musicians. He s ...
as Vadim Panov, coach
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Yuliya Topolnitskaya
Yuliya Nikolaevna Topolnitskaya (russian: Ю́лия Никола́евна Топольни́цкая; born 2 May 1991) is a Russian theater and film actress. She gained fame in January 2016 when she appeared in the music video "Экспона ...
as Alina
* Alina Alekseeva as Nadya
* Aleksandra Kuzenkina as Lena Terekhina
* Polina Aug as Yulya Malysheva
* Mariya Ivakova as Kristina
* Valentina Lyapina as "Sverchok"
* Zarina Mukhitdinova as Aliya
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Roman Madyanov
Roman Sergeevich Madyanov (russian: Рома́н Серге́евич Мадя́нов; born July 22, 1962) is a Soviet and Russian actor. Madyanov's career in cinema began as a child actor when he starred as Huckleberry Finn in ''Hopelessly Lost' ...
as Palych
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Dmitry Miller as Kudryavtsev
* Mikhail Kremer as Artyom
Production
Filming took place in the city of
Taganrog
Taganrog ( rus, Таганрог, p=təɡɐnˈrok) is a port city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the north shore of the Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population:
History of Taganrog
The ...
,
Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a populati ...
, and the local metallurgical plant "
TAGMET" became one of the key locations.
References
External links
Official websiteat the Russian World Vision
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2021 films
2020s Russian-language films
2020s sports comedy films
Russian sports comedy films
Films about women's sports
Russian association football films