Canada Russia '72 (2006) (TV)

Director:

T.W. Peacocke

Writers:

Barrie Dunn (head writer)
Malcolm MacRury (writer)

Genre:

Drama | History | Sport

Plot:

CANADA RUSSIA '72 is shot in a fluid documentary style that effectively captures all the immediacy of the '72 hockey summit's intrigues.

Plot Keywords:

Canada | Hockey | Team | Soviet Union | Russia

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Booth Savage	...	Harry Sinden
Judah Katz	...	Alan Eagleson
Walter Learning	...	Charlie Hay
Mark A. Owen	...	John Ferguson (as Mark Owen)
Sonia Laplante	...	Gabrielle Fournier
David Berni	...	Phil Esposito
Gabriel Hogan	...	Ken Dryden
Mike Dopud	...	Vic Hadfield
Sebastien Roberts	...	Rod Gilbert
Louis Philippe Dandenault	...	Yvan Cournoyer (as Louis-Philip Dandenault)
Jeff Roop	...	Frank Mahovlich
Hugh Thompson	...	Gary Bergman
David Alexander Miller	...	Paul Henderson (as David Miller)
Gerry Dee	...	Wayne Cashman
Chris Szarka	...	Peter Mahovlich

Runtime:

180 min (2 parts)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English | Russian | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Canada:G

Filming Locations:

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Company:

Dream Street Pictures

Trivia:

Gord Downey auditioned for the role of Ken Dryden. In real life, Harry Sinden (coach of Team Canada) is Gord's godfather. Also, Mike Smith and John Paul Tremblay, both famous for playing Bubbles and Julian on the hit Canadian TV show "Trailer Park Boys", auditioned for members of the team as well.

Quotes:

Harry Sinden: The other day, Al was talking about us being in a leaky rowboat. Today, 3 of us jumped ship. After the game in Montreal, I came in here. I gave us all a speech about how we're in this together. Win as a team, lose as a team. And right now, we're losing...

Hooray for CBC for super effort

First-rate cast and script! David Miller (Paul Henderson) was a stand-out, as was Judah Katz (Eagleson) Keep up the excellent work, CBC! I especially appreciated the accuracy of this account I felt the job was particularly good in view of the iconic nature of this project. The writers and director resisted the temptation to emotionally overload the story with a lot of false rhetoric. I appreciated the script's subtlety, the sense of duality felt by team-members, wanting to play their very best, yet under intense pressure to succumb to the 'win at all costs' mentality, perfectly exemplified by Henderson/Miller and Esposito on one hand, and 'The Eagle', Fergie and Clarke on the other. Like many Canadians I'm sure, as the series progressed, I felt I really just wanted my guys to "pull it together", and win the series- no matter how Hard-Assed they had to be to win it! Thanks again CBC! A very classy product! Mike Fullerton