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''Going Vertical'', also known as ''Three Seconds'' (russian: Движение вверх, Dvizhenie vverkh) is a 2017 Russian
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film directed by
Anton Megerdichev Anton Yevgenievich Megerdichev (; born July 22, 1969) is a Russian film director, director and screenwriter. Filmography * ''Russian Empire. The Project of Leonid Parfyonov'' (2000) * ''Shadowboxing 2: Revenge'' (2007) * ''Dark World (2010 fil ...
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. Upon its release on December 28, 2017, ''Going Vertical'' achieved critical and commercial success. With a worldwide gross of , ''Going Vertical'' was the highest-grossing modern Russian film of all time at the time of release.


Plot

The year was 1970. The senior men's
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had changed its
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. The team's new head coach, Vladimir Garanzhin (Vladimir Kondrashin), who was also the head coach of the
Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
based BC Spartak basketball club, of the USSR Premier League; said at a press conference that at the Munich Summer Olympic Games, the Soviet Union was going to beat the U.S. men's national basketball team. The statements of the coach frightened Soviet sports officials, for whom their main goal was to perform strongly at the world's biggest sporting stage, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the
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, and keep their posts. Vladimir Garanzhin completely changed the composition of the Soviet team, and it was no longer dominated by
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players, but instead the players from several different clubs of the country. Garanzhin also began training the team with new coaching techniques; he needed to inspire the team, and convince the players that they could beat the American team. It was the night of 9 to 10 September 1972. The city of Munich, which had survived a terrorist attack three days earlier, had continued to host sports competitions at the Summer Olympic Games. The long-awaited finale of the XX Olympic Summer Basketball Tournament had finally arrived. The two final teams, as had been predicted by Garanzhin, were the USSR and
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teams. Up to the decisive game, both teams were unbeaten. And the outcome of the dramatic final match was decided in the last three seconds of the game...


Cast


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.


Filming

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began in August 2016, in
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. The last scenes of the film - the scenes of the final match of the 1972 Olympic Games basketball tournament, between the
USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
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 "
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" technology.


Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews in the Russian press. Enthusiastic reviews were published by Arguments and Facts, Gazeta.ru, KG-Portal, moderately positive reviews by Novaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Meduza, Esquire, Film.ru, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Trud and Poster. Anton Dolin, in his review, noted that ''Going Vertical" is "a truly sports film that takes teamwork and coherence more than someone's individual talent or charisma"., КГ-Портал


Box office

According to the United Federal Automated Information System on Movie Screenings in Cinema Halls (UAIS), the gross of the film, as of 2018, amounted to more than
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2.9billion (), making the picture the higgest-grossing film in the history of modern
Russian film The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed in the Soviet Union and in the years following its dissolution, the Russian film industry would remain internationally recognized. In the 21st century, Russian cinema has become k ...
distribution (post-
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). It also became the highest-grossing Russian film in China, where it grossed (). That brought the film's worldwide gross to .


See also

* '' Legend No. 17'' *
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