Eleven Silent Men

Eleven Silent Men
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlexey Pimanov
Written by
Produced by
Starring
  • Makar Zaporozhsky
  • Pavel Trubiner
  • Roman Kurtsyn
  • Andrey Chernyshov
  • Evgeniya Lapova
  • Alyona Kolomina
  • Dmitry Belotzerkovsky
CinematographyMaksim Shinkorenko
Music byOleg Volyando
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • February 17, 2022 (2022-02-17) (Russia)
Running time
121 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguagesRussian, English
Budget₽310.3 million
Box office
  • ₽122 million[1]
  • $1.326.672

Eleven Silent Men (Russian: Одиннадцать молчаливых мужчин, romanized: Odinnadtsat molchalivykh muzhchin) is a 2022 Russian sports drama film directed by Alexey Pimanov's company Pimanov and partners. The film is the story of the legendary trip of Soviet football players "FC Dynamo Moscow" who came to Great Britain in November 1945 to play in famous English football clubs. It was with this epithet that British journalists dubbed Soviet athletes in the press (ru). The film stars Makar Zaporozhsky, Pavel Trubiner, Roman Kurtsyn, Andrey Chernyshov, Evgeniya Lapova, Alyona Kolomina, and Dmitry Belotzerkovsky joining the cast.

Eleven Silent Men is scheduled to be theatrically released on February 17, 2022, by Central Partnership.[2]

Plot

November 1945. Football Club Dynamo Moscow players fly to London to play a series of matches with hitherto undefeated British teams, including "Chelsea", "Arsenal", and "Rangers". A charming English correspondent decides to create a sensation by falling in love with the best Russian player, and chooses the prettiest "victim" among the Soviet athletes. Local unscrupulous bookmakers also intend to profit from the tour, within the framework of which the games will be visited by hundreds of thousands of fans... But the "eleven silent men", as the British dubbed the local football players, will present many surprises to everyone!

An incredible story based on real events, full of romance, good humor, spy adventures and football passions. Our football players not only did not lose a single match, but also won the hearts of the English public, completely turning the idea of a Russian person and a Soviet country upside down. "Dynamo" became a symbol of the new world, born on the ruins of the Second World War.[3]

Cast

John Harris (Chelsea) and Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo) at Stamford Bridge on November 13, 1945.
Cast
Makar Zaporozhsky Vsevolod Bobrov is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow, and bandy player
Alyona Kolomina Abby, a special correspondent for a number of Western media
Pavel Kraynov Vadim Sinyavsky, a radio commentator
Evgeniya Lapova Victoria Strelkova, a diplomat
Andrey Chernyshov [ru] Pepper, a sergeant in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain
Sofya Shutkina Alexandra "Sasha" Eliseeva, a Moscow sports committee official
Olga Lerman Valeria "Lera" Vasilyeva, Konstantin Beskov's fiancee
Actors Soviet soccer player
Pavel Trubiner [ru] Mikhail Yakushin is the team's coach of FC Dynamo Moscow
Roman Kurtsyn Alexei Khomich is a Soviet goalkeeper of FC Dynamo Moscow
Aleksei Chechukevich Vsevolod Radikorsky is a Soviet football player, defender of FC Dynamo Moscow
Stanislav Raskachaev Mikhail Semichastny is a Soviet football player, forward and captain of FC Dynamo Moscow
Kirill Kuznetsov Ivan Stankevich is a Soviet football player, defender of FC Dynamo Moscow
Stanislav Kolodub Vsevolod Blinkov is a Soviet football player, midfielder of FC Dynamo Moscow
Aleksandr Korkunov Leonid Solovyov is a Soviet football player, midfielder of FC Dynamo Moscow
Ivan Stepanov Boris Oreshkin is a Soviet football player, midfielder of FC Dynamo Moscow
Vyacheslav Morozov Yevgeny Arkhangelsky is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow
Vsevolod Makarov Vasili Trofimov is a Soviet football player, right wing forward of FC Dynamo Moscow
Aleksandr Alyoshkin Vasili Kartsev is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow
Denis Denisov Nikolay Dementyev is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow
Dmitry Belotzerkovsky Konstantin Beskov is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow
Yuri Trubin Sergey Solovyov is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow
Actors English soccer player
Sergey Belyaev Vic Woodley is an English goalkeeper of Chelsea F.C.
Gleb Gervassiev Tommy Lawton is an English football player, a forward for Chelsea F.C.
Mark Kondratenko Joe Buckuzzi is an English football player

Production

Rangers against Dynamo Moscow at Ibrox Stadium on November 28, 1945.

Especially for each actor playing a football player, a uniform was sewn, completely identical to the equipment of the athletes of 1945. A soccer ball and boots were recreated, made to order: with special carnations on which spikes were attached.[4]

Filming

Principal photography began in September 2019 and took place in Moscow, the municipal city of Pavlovsk and Pushkin to the city of Saint Petersburg, the city of Kaluga, Russia, and London, United Kingdom.[5]

Release

Eleven Silent Men was theatrically released in the Russian Federation on February 17, 2022, by Central Partnership.

Marketing

The first trailer for the upcoming film was released on November 23, 2021.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)
  2. ^ Karev, Igor (November 25, 2021). "Когда выйдет фильм "Одиннадцать молчаливых мужчин"?" [When will Eleven Silent Men be released?]. Arguments and Facts (in Russian). Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  3. ^ "Одиннадцать молчаливых мужчин / Eleven Silent Men (2022)". www.kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
  4. ^ "Режиссер Алексей Пиманов приступил к съемочному периоду полнометражного художественного фильма "Одиннадцать молчаливых мужчин"" [Director Alexey Pimanov has started filming the full-length feature film Eleven Silent Men]. World Podium (in Russian). September 15, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
  5. ^ Rozhdestvensky, Dmitry (September 25, 2019). ""Молчаливые" футболисты перекроют движение в Петербурге" ["Silent" players will block traffic in St. Petersburg]. Komsomol Truth (in Russian). Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  6. ^ Lokhankin, Kozma (November 23, 2021). "Вышел трейлер экшн-драмы о турне московского "Динамо" по Британии" [The trailer for the action-drama about Dynamo Moscow's tour of Britain has been released]. Russian Gazette (in Russian). Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  7. ^ "Тизерный трейлер фильма "Одиннадцать молчаливых мужчин"" [Teaser trailer for the film "Eleven Silent Men"]. Echo of Moscow (in Russian). November 23, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2022.