Gleb ORLOV
Глеб ОРЛОВ
Gleb ORLOV
Russia, 2012, 124mn 
Colour, fiction
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Поддубный

 

 The Iron Ivan

 Poddoubny

Russian subtitle : Иван Поддубный
 
Directed by : Gleb ORLOV (Глеб ОРЛОВ)
Writing credits : Yuri KOROTKOV (Юрий КОРОТКОВ)
 
Cast
Mikhail PORECHENKOV (Михаил ПОРЕЧЕНКОВ) ...Ivan Poddubny
Vladimir ILIN (Владимир ИЛЬИН) ...manager of Poddubny
Yuri KOLOKOLNIKOV (Юрий КОЛОКОЛЬНИКОВ) ...manager of Poddubny
Roman MADIANOV (Роман МАДЯНОВ)
Aleksandr MIKHAYLOV (Александр МИХАЙЛОВ) ...Poddubny's father
Maksim SAPRYKIN (Максим САПРЫКИН) ...Vanya Poddubny
Katerina SHPITSA (Катерина ШПИЦА) ...Maria Dozmarova
Aleksey SMOLKA (Алексей СМОЛКА) ...Mitrofan Poddubny
Timofei TRIBUNTSEV (Тимофей ТРИБУНЦЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladislav OPELIANTS (Владислав ОПЕЛЬЯНЦ)
Production design : Natalia DZIUBENKO (Наталья ДЗЮБЕНКО), Grigori PUSHKIN (Григорий ПУШКИН), Alyona VAYSHTEIN (Алёна ВАЙШТЕЙН)
Music : Yuri POTEYENKO (Юрий ПОТЕЕНКО)
Editing : Mariya LIKHACHEVA (Мария ЛИХАЧЕВА)
Produced by : Vadim GORIAINOV (Вадим ГОРЯИНОВ), Leonid LEBEDEV (Леонид ЛЕБЕДЕВ), Valery TODOROVSKY (Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ), Leonid VERESHCHAGIN (Леонид ВЕРЕЩАГИН)
Other persons :
Denis Lavant : entraîneur d'Ivan Poddubny
Companies : ТРИТЭ и «Красная стрела». TRITE et "La Flèche rouge"
Film revenue in Russia : 6.175 million dollars
Release Date in Russia : 10/07/2014
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb

Plot synopsis
The world’s strongest man, the invincible fighter of the twentieth century. Year after year, he was crowned European Champion. At 55, following victories in rings throughout the New World, Ivan Poddubny earned the title Champion of Champions. The real Iron Ivan was the flesh and blood forerunner of the all-powerful, fearless cinematic heroes whose stories would be told in the following centuries. His life encompassed no defeats, but thousands of victories... and a beautiful, boundless love, worthy of such a legendary figure.
 

commentaries
8 лучших российских фильмов о спорте [Les 8 meilleurs films russes sur le sport], kulturologia.ru, 2024
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sport films, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2016
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2016
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2015
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2015
- Shangai International Film Festival, Shangai (China), 2014
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2014
- Russian Art Festival, Cannes (France), 2014
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2014

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