This Crazy Beautiful Sport

The film was made by order of the Prikamye Olympic Hopes Fund. 1 part. Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics, Honored Trainer of the USSR Larisa Latynina at the gym where artistic gymnastics competitions are held. High jump record holder Tamara Bykova. Olympic champion in high vault Sergei Bubka prepares for the athletics competition. Volleyball coach Vyacheslav Platonov at the gaming machine. Head coach of the Uralochka women's volleyball team Nikolai Karpol at the gym with volleyball players. Tennis player Andrei Medvedev. A crowd of people walk from the Sportivnaya metro station towards the Luzhniki Stadium for a football match between Spartak and CSKA. Fans of the Spartak team in hats, scarves and flags with the symbols of the Spartak football team. Fans in the stands of the stadium, waving flags. A fragment of a football match between Spartak and CSKA. Female athletes at the start of the race, at a distance during the competition in running. A fragment of one of the international volleyball matches. The moment of the fight of female judokas. A fragment of a hockey match between the teams "Dynamo" (Moscow) and "Spartak" (Moscow) at the USSR / CIS championship (1992). Dynamo hockey players V. Karmanov and D. Yushkevich embrace after a puck into the opponent's goal. The gymnast performs an exercise on the uneven bars. Performances of gymnasts in the vault during the competition. Competition cyclists on the track. Arrival of a pair of cyclists. Athlete-athlete prepares for a pole vault, runs and jumps, breaking a given height. Athlete-athlete is preparing to throw the nucleus. Fragment of the water polo match. Tennis competition in the gym. Football match between the teams "Spartak" (Moscow) and "Napoli" (Italy). The scoreboard is 3: 2 in favor of the "Spartak" team. Volleyball match between the women's teams Uralochka (Sverdlovsk) and CSKA. The coach of the Uralochka team, Nikolai Karpol, gives instructions to the volleyball players from his seat (sync.), Follows the match, gives interviews (sync.). The head coach of the CSKA hockey team Viktor Tikhonov at the stadium during the team's game in the USSR / CIS championship (1992), gives instructions to hockey players sitting on the bench, releases hockey players I. Malykhin, I. Chibiryeva and others on the field. V. Tikhonov, accompanied by his assistants, walks past the stands. The head coach of the volleyball team Vyacheslav Platonov talks with the players (sync.) During the break of one of their matches, gives instructions (sync. And per frame.). The doctor gives a calf muscle massage to one of the team players. Part 2. The athlete in the locker room shoes sneakers. A fragment of an international volleyball match with the participation of the USSR national volleyball team. The head coach of the Platonov team observes the game, gives instructions to the players (sync.), Gives interviews (sync.) - speaks of the principle and voluntariness of the dictatorship in the person of the coach for athletes, without suppressing the personalities of the players. National team volleyball players Oleg Shatunov, Evgeny Krasilnikov, Dmitry Fomin, Pavel Shishkin and others in the game, resting during the break. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Trainer of the USSR in artistic gymnastics Larisa Latynina at the gym during the international competitions of world stars in artistic gymnastics. Larisa Latynina gives interviews (sync. And for the frame.) - talks about how I had to leave the sport ahead of time, since the sports officials decided that her programs were outdated. Athletes perform a vault. One of the athletes is preparing for the performance, treating her hands with talcum powder, performing an exercise on the uneven bars. Newsreel footage of the early 60s: gymnast Larisa Latynina performs vault and floor exercise at international competitions in artistic gymnastics, spectators applaud in the stands. Awarding of Soviet gymnasts: on the podium L. Latynina (1st place), P. Astakhova (2nd place). Installation of scenery on the stage of the Moscow Hermitage Theater. The main director of the theater Mikhail Levitin says that sports are very similar to theater, and the play of athletes is the play of actors (sync. And for the frame.). Athletes runners are preparing for a race in the gym. Yury Tyurin, senior coach of the USSR national running team, watches the runners' competition as part of the Russian Winter track and field competition. Sports psychologist, professor Rudolf Zagayev and Yuri Tyurin talk at the stadium (sinhr.). R. Zagayev recalls his work, as well as the negative moments associated with dishonest refereeing in sports. Athletes performing in race walking at the start, at a distance during the competition at the stadium in Luzhniki. Competition athletes-athletes in hurdles. The finish of the athletes. Panorama of the Big Sports Arena in Luzhniki. Football referee from St. Petersburg Nikolai Khlebnikov checks the field readiness for the match 2 hours before the start of the game. Nikolay Khlebnikov talks about the fixed matches that take place, that the referee needs 15 minutes to understand that the game is agreed. The referees in the dressing room are preparing for the match: they put on their uniforms, check the balls. Part 3. The judges take the football teams to the field of the Dynamo stadium. Referee Nikolai Kharitonov at the match, talks about the problems that referees have during the game (per frame). Football referee Mark Rafalov and another man walk through a spontaneous market near one of the stadiums. Trade in beer on the market and other products. There is a queue to the bus, from which there is also trade. A group of people are queuing up to the Akademkniga booth. M. Rafalov gives interviews (sinhr.). Bodybuilding men show off their muscular muscles in bodybuilding competitions. The girl demonstrates her muscles. The audience from the stands of the stadium is watching the athletes. Professor from Cologne Manfred Donike - IOC Medical Commissioner and Head of the Doping Testing Laboratory gives interviews (sync. And off-screen). Laboratory workers conduct blood tests for doping, test new anti-doping substances. A panorama of preparations, of chemical utensils on the shelves of the laboratory. Part 4. General view of the Dynamo stadium. One of the sports figures, who asked not to be named, says (off-camera) that the doping lawlessness began in 1976 and reached its climax at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Competition cyclists on a cycle track: athletes prepare for the start, participate in the race. Sportsmen-water polo players during one of the matches. An interview with a professor from Cologne Manfred Donike, who says that defending Maradona, he defended sports in his person. A fragment of the international football match between the teams "Spartak" (Moscow) and "Napoli" (Italy) with the participation of Diego Maradona. Diego Maradona, after the match, walks through the stadium, surrounded by journalists who want to interview him. Newsreel footage: weightlifting weightlifting competitions at the XVII Olympic Games in 1960 in Rome: Soviet weightlifter Yuri Vlasov on the platform, taking weight, the audience in the hall applauding; performances of other weightlifters - James Bradford (USA) and Norbert Shemansky. The winner of the competition, Yuri Vlasov, accepts congratulations; Y. Vlasov, D. Bradford (left) and N. Shemansky on the podium. Honored Coach of the USSR in artistic gymnastics Larisa Latynina walks through the gym during the international competitions of world stars in artistic gymnastics. Gymnasts compete in the vault, one of the athletes falls, she is lifted, examined and taken away. Another athlete performs an exercise on the uneven bars. Larisa Latynina stands on the street (church in the background) and gives an interview (sync. And behind the scenes), in which she says that big sport is falling apart. Degradation of personality occurs among former athletes who were left without sports, without a regime and do not know how to live on. High jump athlete Tamara Bykova at a training session. Being the leader in high jump, she could not take part in the Los Angeles Olympics due to the confrontation between the two states, the USSR and the USA. Tamara Bykova gives interviews (sinhr.). The athlete in the shot throw Marina Antonyuk (World Championship finalist) at the competition, in the gym under the guidance of coach from Perm Ivan Stepanovich Malofeev, who created the Foundation for the Support of Talented Athletes. Part 5. Perm athletics coach Ivan Stepanovich Malofeev gives interviews in the (sync. And for the frame.) Gym, where athletes train. Sportswoman Marina Antonyuk trains in the shot throw under the guidance of her coach - I.S. Malofeev. Training judokas in the gym. Among them is the European champion in judo Tatiana Bogomyakova, who is also sponsored by the Malofeev Foundation. She gives an interview after the fight (sinhr.), Talks about how she came to judo. Stadium field. Perm athlete Sergei Shchupletsov, a former freestyle world champion, warms up at the stadium. Video footage of the freestyle performance at the 17th Olympic Games in Albertville, athlete Elizaveta Kozhevnikova, who won a silver medal. Elizaveta Kozhevnikova gives an interview (sinhr.): Talks about the choice that stood before her: to seriously engage in studies or sports. Children at the stadium, where Sergei Shchupletsov is warming up, are engaged in general physical training. Preparation of the stadium in Luzhniki for the International tennis competition for the Kremlin Cup. Training of young tennis players in the hall. Tennis player Andrei Medvedev goes to competitions, participates in competitions. Interview with A. Medvedev (sync. And for the frame.), Who talks about the fact that tennis is both a sport and a show, and he, in turn, plays for himself and his family and does not think about whether he plays for money ... Competition "Pole Stars" at the stadium in Donetsk. Preparing the hall for the competition. Athletes warm up before competition. The organizer of the competition, Olympic champion Sergei Bubka, gives interviews (sync. And behind the scenes.), He says that despite the fact that the USSR collapsed and we now live in different states, sport plays a unifying role. Part 6. Competition "Stars with Pole" at the stadium in Donetsk. Athletes compete in pole vaulting. Among the participants of the competition, the organizer of the competition is Olympic champion Sergei Bubka. General view of the cheering fans of the Spartak team at the stadium after the end of the game of the football teams Spartak and CSKA for the 1991/1992 USSR Cup. The footballers throw up in the arms of head coach Oleg Rumyantsev, hug him. Spartak fans in the stands waving team flags.

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scriptwriter E. Bogatyrev, sound technicians Y. Kotov, S. Solovyov, editor A. Ovakimyan