Legend No. 17

The picture begins set in 1956 with children's experiences during the Running of the Bulls in Spain where Kharlamov's mother originally was from. Then the action is transferred to Moscow in 1967, where the young hockey player gets acquainted with the famous trainer Anatoli Tarasov, who sends Valeri along with his friend Alexander Gusev to the city of Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast, where they will play for the local "Zvezda" team. Having overcome the difficulties of adaptation in the lower league team, Valeri displays effective hockey skills and returns to Moscow at the end of the season where Tarasov invites him to join HC CSKA Moscow, but at first Anatoli tests Kharlamov's character and his ability to dedicate his life to hockey.

MPAA Rating:	NR
Genre:	Biography, Drama, Sports
Country:	Russian Federation
Produced By:	Svetlana Migounova, Peter Welter Soler, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Aleksandr Kharlamov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Mel Borz, Leonid Vereshchagin
Directed By:	Nikolay Lebedev
Written By:	Nikolay Kulikov, Nikolay Lebedev, Mikhail Mestetskiy
Cast:	Andrey Shchavel, Ruslan Yagudin, Sergey Prokopich, Sergey Genkin, Anna Arshava, Nikolay Lebedev, Vera Ivanova, Sergio Braude, Svetlana Migounova, Denis Serdyukov, Pavel Nikitin, Nina Grebeshkova, Michael Garner, Vladimir Menshov, Andrei Runtso, Aleksandr Chislov, Mikhail Mestetskiy, Javier Alcina, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Boris Shcherbakov, Danila Kozlovsky, Brad Turner, Mike Carpenter, Alejandra Grepi, Andrey Popkov, Aleksandr Kharlamov, Sean Skene, Tatyana Shchankina, Darya Ekamasova, Tatyana Kharlamova, Sergey Kempo, Montse Domènech, Nina Usatova, Aleksandr Lobanov, Elena Anisimova, Nikita Emshanov, Svetlana Ivanova, Mel Borz, Daniel Olbrychski, Timur Efremenkov, Nikolay Kulikov, Artyom Fedotov, Todd Jensen, Götz Otto, Roman Madyanov, Yuriy Berkun, Aleksandr Ragulin, Valentin Smirnitskiy, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko
In Theaters:	Apr 18, 2013
Runtime:	2 hours 14 minutes
Production:	Three T Productions
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