Exclusive: NBC Sports has acquired and set a premiere date for The Russian Five, a feature documentary about the first five Russians to play hockey together in the NHL. The film will air on November 6, following Nbcsn’s Wednesday Night Hockey game between the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers.
The Russian Five tells the story of how Sergei Fedorov, Slava Fetisov, Vladimir Konstatinov, Slava Kozlov and Igor Larionov defected and then helped transform the Red Wings from perennial losers to back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions. Toward the end of the Cold War in the late ’80s, the Red Wings hatched an audacious plan to draft the best Soviet players from behind the Iron Curtain and help them defect to Detroit. The team snuck them out under cover of night and whisking them to the Motor City where they won the fans’ hearts and changed the way hockey is played in North America forever.
The Russian Five tells the story of how Sergei Fedorov, Slava Fetisov, Vladimir Konstatinov, Slava Kozlov and Igor Larionov defected and then helped transform the Red Wings from perennial losers to back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions. Toward the end of the Cold War in the late ’80s, the Red Wings hatched an audacious plan to draft the best Soviet players from behind the Iron Curtain and help them defect to Detroit. The team snuck them out under cover of night and whisking them to the Motor City where they won the fans’ hearts and changed the way hockey is played in North America forever.
- 10/31/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Red Army Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Gabe Polsky Screenwriter: Gabe Polsky Cast: Slava Fetisov, Vladimir Pozner, Viktor Tikhonov, Alexei Kasatonov, Vladimir Krutov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, Anatoli Karpov, Lawrence Martin, Lada Fetisov Screened at: Review, NYC, 1/8/15 Opens: January 23, 2015 When the modern Olympic games were established, the idea was that countries of various stripes would get together, the participants and fans getting to know one another better, and lo, everyone would be singing Kumbayah. Things turned out differently, as the Olympic games became yet another competition among the various nations, the Nazi government in 1936 using [ Read More ]
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- 2/11/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Gabe Polsky's puckish ice hockey documentary revisits the Russian team who smashed through the iron curtain to secure global victory and finds them as well-drilled in defence as ever
Cultures clash on and off the ice in Gabe Polsky's documentary about the Soviet Union's dominance of ice hockey during the cold war, and its former stars' place in modern Russia.
The Red Army ice hockey team were the Soviet Union's proof that socialism worked. They played as a collective. No one player was the star, instead they scored goals communally, pushing the puck around their team before shooting with power and deadly accuracy.
Hockey was propaganda. Players were bred to beat the west, with young children selected by Soviet officials to enter intensive bootcamps. One such player Viacheslav Fetisov is at the heart of Polsky's story. A Red Army recruit from the age of 8, Fetisov's playing career spanned...
Cultures clash on and off the ice in Gabe Polsky's documentary about the Soviet Union's dominance of ice hockey during the cold war, and its former stars' place in modern Russia.
The Red Army ice hockey team were the Soviet Union's proof that socialism worked. They played as a collective. No one player was the star, instead they scored goals communally, pushing the puck around their team before shooting with power and deadly accuracy.
Hockey was propaganda. Players were bred to beat the west, with young children selected by Soviet officials to enter intensive bootcamps. One such player Viacheslav Fetisov is at the heart of Polsky's story. A Red Army recruit from the age of 8, Fetisov's playing career spanned...
- 5/16/2014
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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