Three Seconds (2017)

Going Vertical is a film based on real events that occurred in 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. It focuses on a legendary final battle between USSR and USA basketball teams.

Director:

Anton Megerdichev

Writers:

Sergey Belov (book), Aleksandr Konovalov (book)

Stars:

Vladimir Mashkov, John Savage, Marat Basharov

4 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Vladimir Mashkov	...	Vladimir Garanzhin
John Savage	...	Hank Aiba
Marat Basharov	...	Tereschenko
Sergey Garmash	...	Sergey Pavlov, head of Goskomsport
Ivan Kolesnikov	...	Aleksander Belov
Otar Lortkipanidze	...	Mikhail Korkia
Irakli Mikava	...	Zourab Sakandelidze
Aleksandra Revenko	...	Aleksandra Ovchinnikova
Aleksandr Ryapolov	...	Alzhan Zharmukhamedov
James Tratas	...	Modestas Paulauskas
Kirill Zaytsev	...	Sergey Belov
Andrey Smolyakov	...	Sergey Bashkin
Ivan Orlov	...	Sergey Kovalenko
Egor Klimovich	...	Aleksander Boloshev
Dmitriy Frid	...	Referee

Storyline

The film tells us about the incredible events that occurred at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The USSR basketball team was able to defeat the unbeatable Americans in the final of the basketball tournament. Three seconds before the end of the match, the Americans led by one point advantage. The Americans have already begun to rejoice in the victory, they were sure that in these three seconds the outcome of the match will not change. But not only the outcome of the match changed, but the whole basketball history.

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Genres:

Drama | Sport

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Details

Country:

Russia

Language:

Georgian Russian English Lithuanian

Release Date:

28 December 2017 (Russia)

Also Known As:

Three Seconds

Filming Locations:

Russia

Box Office

Budget:

$7,500,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$59,884,129

Company Credits

Production Co:

Three T Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

133 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Even before the release of the film, he aroused sharp criticism from Evgeniya Kondrashina and Alexandra Ovchinnikova (widows of Vladimir Kondrashin and Alexander Belov), and Yury Kondrashin (son of Vladimir Petrovich). In their opinion, the authors of the film were plunged into their private lives, including information about it in the script without their consent.

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Goofs

The checkup by the police when the USSR team arrived in the Soviet Union actually happened but it happened in 1970 with the previous coach Alexandr Gomelskiy.

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Connections

Referenced in Vdud: Nikita Mikhalkov (2018)

User Reviews

Well... not quite...

I have played basketball for 20 years for now and therefore studied the game history as well. It's a beautifully made movie, but with a lot of bad and over the limit details. Most annoying detail of the movie - if you ever are going to make historic basketball movie - get the correct basketball rims from that time, man. The softer, unbreakable rims with springs came tens of years later. That hurt my eyes. Secondly, please be real, russians throwing down between the legs dunks... Even in today's NBA I haven't seen that being done in-game. Not to mention all the other flashy and also pointguard dunks performed by russian players. The players in that era moved like robots, most of them. Elgin Baylor and Dr. J were the first ones to really play the game with more smoothly body movement. To me the russians just wanted to show off with the inaccurate and overly imposed basketball game as if the have some complexes with the final game. And they should not be so heroic with that Olympic game win because it was a total fiasco of the century in basketball sense. If the timeout is missed by the referee then that's it. Even worse, who was this baldy to go and tell table referees what to do. That's an Olympic final for gods sake! And I am from a country that was under Soviet Union control in that time. Anyway, not a total waste of time if you are not a basketball freak like me.