Hockey games (film)

The film “Hockey Games” is about the hockey super series of 1972, one of the most striking episodes in the annals of domestic sports. For the first time, the film tells about the characters, fates, difficult relationships and many years of confrontation between great coaches, two masters - Anatoly Tarasov and Vsevolod Bobrov, who brought Soviet hockey to the world level. The periods of life of Anatoly Tarasov and Vsevolod Bobrov in the film are shown from young years to adulthood.

The film covers time from 1947 to 1972. The plot of the "Hockey Games" is based on the memories of the direct participants in the events. The picture is partially based on documentary materials, the film shows the famous shots of the sports chronicle of those years.

• Sergey Gazarov - Anatoly Tarasov
• Leonid Timtsunik - Vsevolod Bobrov
• Mikhail Filippov - Anatoly Tarasov in his youth
• Sergey Larin - Vsevolod Bobrov in his youth
• Svetlana Josefiy - Nina, wife of Anatoly Tarasov
• Julia Golovina - Nina Tarasova in her youth
• Tatyana Morozova - Elena, wife of Vsevolod Bobrov
• Andrey Rapoport - Sergey Pavlov
• Andrey Lebedev - Arkady Chernyshev
• Alexander Pechenin - Vasily Stalin
• Oleg Chernigov - Leonid Brezhnev
• Victor Lakirev - Andrey Gromyko
• Yuri Chigrov - Andrey Grechko
• Ivan Gordienko - Yuri Andropov
• Andrey Natotsinsky - Boris Bobrov, brother of Vsevolod Bobrov
• Vladimir Khalturin - Alexander Gomelsky
• Evgeny Plitkin - Alexander Yakushev
• Andrey Voroshilov - Vladislav Tretyak
• Gleb Isakov - Valery Kharlamov
• Gennady Khristenko - Boris Kulagin
• Alexey Sviridov - Yuri Gagarin
• Pyotr Rabchevsky - Anatoly Seglin
• Alexey Palamarchuk - Zavadsky
• Vitaly Gusev - Gurevich
• Vladimir Chuprikov - Nikita Khrushchev (not in the credits)
• Artyom Fedotov - Victor Shuvalov (uncredited)
• Oleg Osipov - translator (not in the credits)
• Igor Dorofeev - episode (not in the credits)
• Stanislav Zhitarev - episode (not in the credits)
• Daniil Myznikov - Misha Bobrov
• Sergey Bagaev - Stepanov, sports official

• Bobrov, Vsevolod Mikhailovich - Chronicle
• Tarasov, Anatoly Vladimirovich - chronicle
• Tretyak, Vladislav Alexandrovich - Chronicle
• Kharlamov, Valery Borisovich - Chronicle

• The premiere of the film was broadcast on September 3, 2012 at 18.25 on Russia 2 channel.

• “The best feature film” based on the results of the XI Krasnogorsk International Sports Film Festival ^[1] .

• Film slogan: “The 40th anniversary of the Superseries 72 of the USSR — Canada is dedicated to ...”
• The working title of the film had several options: “Hockey” and “Hockey that changed the world.”
• The film was shot in early 2012 in Moscow. The film was shot in historical interiors, in summer cottages of Moscow Region and on the miraculously preserved ice platforms of Moscow and the region, which were built in the 1970s ^[2] .
• Finding well-preserved portraits of Lenin and Stalin for filming was harder than getting retro cars.
• According to the memoirs, Vsevolod Bobrov and Anatoly Tarasov were big lovers of the bath. Even the most important meetings were sometimes transferred to the steam room. In one of the scenes of the Hockey Games film, the guests of Tarasov’s bath are his friend and neighbor, basketball coach Alexander Gomelsky and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
• The responsibility for the authenticity of the events displayed in the film “Hockey Games” is assumed by the club “Hockey Legends”, which is headed by one of the participants in the Super Series, hockey player and coach Alexander Yakushev ^[3] .
• For greater reliability, the authors of the film “Hockey Games” turned to sports commentators and owners of archives of publications about Soviet sports for consultations.
• The film "Hockey Games" shows a number of historical characters who played a big role in the development of hockey in the Soviet Union - from Vasily Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev to Yuri Gagarin.
• The interiors of the 1940-1960 era, the authors of the painting "Hockey Games" had to be recreated mainly from photographs and drawings.
• At 20 minutes of the 1st series, the viewer for a long time and neatly demonstrates the electric stove "Dream" with an open heating element , which could not exist with such a heating element in the interior of the 40s of the XX century - at that time the burners of the stoves were different (at least closed ); such tiles are one-on-one in color and models are still produced and used since the 90s of the XX century.

The super series of games of the USSR - Canada 1972 .

• Hockey games on the site around TV
• Hockey games on the site Kino.mail.ru
• Information about the film on the site RusKino.ru
• YouTube Hockey Game Trailer
• Hockey games on TV DIGEST
• Hockey games on the Television website
• The Brigadiers filmed a television series about the USSR – Canada super series, the Izvestia newspaper April 8, 2012, Ilya Desyaterik
• Tarasov vs Bobrov, the film "Hockey Games": about legends without makeup, rg.ru Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Pavel Zarudny, 09/26/2013