Rodnina

Plot

Ill Ira, at her parents' insistence, began figure skating to gain strength, but she discovered her calling in the sport. She enrolled in the CSKA figure skating school and discovered incredible fortitude and a thirst for victory. She won a series of championships, and now she wants to change the perception of figure skating...

Cast

Vladislava Samokhina as Irina Rodnina

Ivan Kolesnikov as Alexander Zaitsev, pair skater

Yevgeny Tkachuk as Stanislav Zhukov, а coach (the prototype is Stanislav Zhuk)

Fedor Fedotov as Mikhail Bulanov (the prototype is Alexei Ulanov)

Daniil Vorobyov as Alexei Pankratov (the prototype is Oleg Protopopov)

Kristina Stepanova as Elena Belova (the prototype is Lyudmila Belousova)

Olga Bodrova as Natalia, a coach (the prototype is Tatiana Tarasova)

Marat Basharov as Albert Lisov

Igor Petrenko as Konstantin, Rodnina's father

Maria Mironova as Bulanov's mother

Aleksandr Semchev as Vasily

Alexei Yagudin as John Nix, Babilonia and Gardner's trainer

Anastasia Ignatyeva as Tai Babilonia

Andrey Mirin as Randy Gardner

Stasya Miloslavskaya as Nadezhda Lyubimova

Aleksei Maklakov as Pavel Borisov

Production

Casting

For artistic purposes, some of the surnames of real people from the world of sports have been changed. So the legendary coach Stanislav Zhuk became Zhukov, Alexey Ulanov, paired with whom Irina Rodnina won Olympic gold in 1972 in Sapporo, turned into Mikhail Bulanov, and the rivals of the Rodnina-Ulanov sports pair Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, according to the will of the screenwriters, began to receive the names Belova and Pankratov.

Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin plays a cameo role as American coach John Nix, who helped the pair of Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner win the 1979 World Championships and become favorites for the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, but withdrew from the competition after suffering an injury during warm-up.

Filming

Filming took place in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Pervouralsk.