Russian Ice Hockey Documentary

With jeff daniels jim devellano sergei fedorov viacheslav fetisov.

Russian ice hockey documentary. Directed by joshua riehl. Told from the perspective of its captain slava fetisov the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. Red army is a feature documentary about the soviet union and the most successful dynasty in sports history. 4 explores the wild ride that was the russian penguins hockey team one that included gangsters bears and disney.

Very fast real time live scores as well as partial and final livescore results. The documentary the russian five traces the journey of five russian hockey players who helped transform the detroit red wings into stanley cup champions in 1997 and 1998 and another in 2002. A follow up of sorts to polsky s brilliant 2014 red army which told the story of the soviet union national hockey team s dominance from the 1950s to the 1990s red penguins has a strikingly different and pitch perfect tone as polsky expertly unwinds the truth is stranger than fiction story of what happened to high level hockey team after the fall of the soviet union in the early 1990s. Red army tells the story of the soviet union national ice hockey team through the eyes of team captain slava fetisov focusing on the 1980 winter olympic games in lake placid n y.

In the late 1980s the detroit red wings worked to finally break their decades long stanley cup drought by extracting players from the soviet union and in the process changed the way north american hockey is played. Russia russian hockey league over 100 other hockey leagues and cups live. The film tells the story of the soviet union national ice hockey team through the eyes of team captain slava fetisov in particular the famed 1990s five man unit known as the russian five. Film critic one of the most dramatic and emotional of sports stories gets the expert film it deserves in the russian five a documentary that is moving in ways you won t see coming.

It premiered at the 2014 cannes film festival and was released in limited theaters by sony pictures classics on january 23 2015. From the ussr to russia the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the red army team with the soviet union. The new documentary red penguins available aug.