A Russian hockey drama where the real ice is between mother and son.
Sasha is a young and daring hockey player. After he was kicked out of the team, he and his mother, a doctor, move to another city. Here he and his mother will have to not only become part of their new team, but also build a personal life and find mutual understanding.
Acting
Elena Sokolova's exhausted eyes say everything.
Practical Effects
Real hockey chaos, no glossy sports-movie sheen.
Direction
Drozdov lets silences land like body checks.
Director
Pavel Drozdov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian hockey cinema often frames the sport as class mobility; here it's explicitly about exile and shame instead.
Ivan Krasko, the chief trainer, was 80 during filming and reportedly did his own rink-side yelling.
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