Soviet Ice Hockey Team Documentary

He is then followed by the brutal viktor tikhonov who is more.

Soviet ice hockey team documentary. 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. Gabe polsky s richly entertaining documentary red army asks american sports and movie fans to do the hardest thing they may ever do. For the ice hockey players in the soviet union s red army team it was obligatory to win. The famous miracle on ice is perhaps the hockey game most americans know best.

The red army hockey team. In that game which occurred on february 22 1980 a young group of us players defeated a seasoned soviet team in a. We never thought of losing never thought it. Red army is a feature documentary about the soviet union and the most successful dynasty in sports history.

It premiered at the 2014 cannes film festival and was released in limited theaters by sony pictures classics on january 23 2015. Root for that eternal repository of villainy the russians. Told from the perspective of its captain slava fetisov the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. As one of the interviewees in the film puts it the team represented the peak of what the soviet union had.

Red army describes the development of the soviet team under coach anatoli tarosov considered to be the father of russian hockey.