''Girls Got Game'' () is a 2021 Russian
sports comedy film
A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport or a sports-related topic is prominently featured or is a focus of the plot. De ...
directed by Maksim Sveshnikov.
It was theatrically released in Russia on September 1, 2021, by Nashe Kino (English: Our Cinema).
Plot
Dasha "Danya" Belykh was told from childhood that football is not a woman's business, but she still became the captain of the football team. Here are just her team unexpectedly gathered to close. Only victory can save them. And Danya decides to gather her childhood friends, with whom she played football at school. It turns out to be not so easy, and then there is a coach - a former "star" with problems, who does not consider women's football to be football at all ... But having sent self-doubt, excess weight and problems on the personal front to the bench, the girls are eager to win not only in sports, but also in life.
Cast
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Lyubov Aksyonova
Lyubov Pavlovna Aksyonova, (; born March 15, 1990) is a Russian actress.
Early life and education
Lyubov Pavlovna Aksyonova was born Lyubov Pavlovna Novikova on March 15, 1990 in Moscow. She studied at the '' Russian Institute of Theatre Arts ...
as Daria "Danya" Belykh, captain of the football team
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Egor Koreshkov as Vadim Panov, coach
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Yuliya Topolnitskaya as Alina
* Alina Alekseeva as Nadya
* Aleksandra Kuzenkina as Lena Terekhina
* Polina Aug as Yulya Malysheva
* Mariya Ivakova as Kristina
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Valentina Lyapina as Ekaterina "Katya" Panova, the team's striker, Vadim Panov's daughter
* Zarina Mukhitdinova as Aliya
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Roman Madyanov
Roman Sergeevich Madyanov (; 22 July 1962 – 25 September 2024) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Madyanov's career in cinema began as a child actor when he starred as Huckleberry Finn in '' Hopelessly Lost'' (1973). He was best known in the West ...
as Palych
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Dmitry Miller as Kudryavtsev
* Mikhail Kremer as Artyom
Production
Filming took place in the city of
Taganrog
Taganrog (, ) is a port city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the north shore of Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don (river), Don River. It is in the Black Sea region. Population:
Located at the site of a ...
,
Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblastʹ, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast ...
, and the local metallurgical plant "
TAGMET" became one of the key locations.
References
External links
Official websiteat the Russian World Vision
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2021 films 2020s Russian films
2020s Russian-language films
2020s sports comedy films
Russian sports comedy films
Films about women's sports
Russian association football films
Russian-language sports comedy films