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Release year: 2017

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Going Vertical is a film based on real events that occurred in 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. It focuses on a legendary final battle between USSR and USA basketball teams.

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Vladimir Mashkov — Vladimir Garanzhin (USSR Head Coach)
Andrey Smolyakov — Grigoriy Moiseev
Sergey Garmash — Sergey Pavlov
Marat Basharov — Gennadiy Tereschenko

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• Even before the release of the film, it aroused sharp criticism from Evgeniya Kondrashina and Aleksandra Ovchinnikova (widows of Vladimir Kondrashin and Alexander Belov), and Yuriy Kondrashin (son of Vladimir Petrovich). In their opinion, the authors of the film were plunged into their private lives, including information about it in the script without their consent.

• The last scenes of the film - the scenes of the final match of the Munich 1972: Games of the XX Olympiad (1972) basketball tournament between the USSR and the US national teams - were filmed in the first filming days. Instead of a crowd of fans, advertising and other attributes of the Munich match, the shooting technique used the 'chromakey' technology.

• The widow of Vladimir Kondrashin complained to the movie's production team regarding the portrayal of her husband and spreading information about his life. The director Anton Megerdichev said that he talked to her assuming that everything was agreed. Therefore the name of the team's coach is named Garanzhin and not Kondrashin. A similar issue, only without big changes, happened also with the widow of the player Alexander Belov.