Legend № 17
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| Directed by | Nikolay Lebedev |
| Produced by |
Nikita Mikhalkov Leonid Vereshchagin Anton Zlatopolskiy Svetlana Migunova-Dali Mel Borz |
| Starring |
Danila Kozlovsky Svetlana Ivanova Vladimir Menshov Roman Madyanov Alexander Kharlamov Götz Otto Oleg Menshikov Boris Shcherbakov |
| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
| Cinematography | Irek Hartovich |
| Edited by | Maxim Smirnov Pyotr Zelenov |
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| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Release date
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2013 |
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Running time
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134 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | €13,7 million |
| Box office | $29.3 million |
Legend № 17 (Russian: Легенда №17) is a 2013 Russian biographical sports film directed by Nikolay Lebedev and produced by Trite Studio. The film is based on real events and tells of the rise to fame of the Soviet hockey player Valeri Kharlamov and about the first match of the Summit Series USSR — Canada 1972.
The film was awarded with six Golden Eagle awards, including the best Russian film of the year.
The filmmakers received the State Prize of the Russian Federation for the year 2013 in 2014.
The picture begins set in 1956 with children's experiences during the Running of the Bulls in Spain where Kharlamov's mother originally was from. Then the action is transferred to Moscow in 1967, where the young hockey player gets acquainted with the famous trainer Anatoli Tarasov, who sends Valeri along with his friend Alexander Gusev to the city of Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast, where they will play for the local "Zvezda" team. Having overcome the difficulties of adaptation in the lower league team, Valeri displays effective hockey skills and returns to Moscow at the end of the season where Tarasov invites him to join HC CSKA Moscow, but at first Anatoli tests Kharlamov's character and his ability to dedicate his life to hockey.
Kharlamov passes all of Tarasov's trials and gradually becomes one of the leading attackers of CSKA, and then the USSR national team. The trainer constructs an attack trio of Mikhailov-Petrov-Kharlamov. At the same time intrigues are waged around Tarasov by the curator of hockey from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Eduard Balashov, whose son the coach once expelled from the team. Balashov tries to drag Kharlamov to his side, stressing Tarasov's excessive rigidity, but the hockey player refuses to sign any papers against his coach (Kharlamov later tells Tarasov everything but Anatoli responds that he already knew everything).
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