Going Vertical

Going Vertical is an upcoming Russian sport drama film directed by Anton Megerdichev about the victory of the Soviet national basketball team over a team of Americans at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. It is scheduled to be released on 28 December 2017.

Cast

• Vladimir Mashkov as Vladimir Kondrashin, coach of the USSR national basketball team
• John Savage as Hank Aiba
• Jay Bowdy as Mike Bantom
• Oliver Morton as Doug Collins
• Sheila M. Lockhart as African American Pedestrian
• Chidi Ajufo as Jim Brewer
• James Tratas as Modestas Paulauskas, captain of the USSR national team (№5)
• Andrius Paulavicius as Jonas
• Isaiah Jarel as Jimmy
• Kirill Zaytsev as Sergei Belov, player of the USSR national team (№10)
• Andrey Smolyakov
• Ivan Kolesnikov as Alexander Belov, player of the USSR national team (№14)
• Viktoriya Tolstoganova
• Sergei Garmash as Sergei Pavlov, Chairman of the State Committee for Sport of the USSR
• Kuzma Saprykin as Ivan Edeshko, player of the USSR national team (№9)
• Egor Klimovich as Aleksandr Boloshev, player of the USSR national team (№8)
• Aleksandr Ryapolov as Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, player of the USSR national team (№7)
• Ivan Orlov as Sergei Kovalenko, player of the USSR national team (№15)
• Konstantin Shpakov as Tony Jameson
• Vladislav Lvov as acrobat
• Tene Kirsanova as cheerleader
• Daniil Soldatov as Mike, reporter
• Irakliy Kvantrishvili as Irakliy
• Oleg Lebedev as Ranko Zheravica, coach of the Yugoslav national team
• Aleksandr Gromov as basketball player
• Elena Skvortsova as nurse

Production

• The scene of the legendary match was shot during the first filming days.^[1]

References

External links

• Going Vertical on IMDb