Legend No. 17
| Legend No. 17 | |
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| Directed by | Nikolai Lebedev |
| Written by | Nikolay Kulikov, Nikolay Lebedev and Mikhail Mestetskiy |
| Produced by | Nikita Mikhalkov Leonid Vereshchagin Anton Zlatopolskiy Svetlana Migunova-Dali Mel Borz |
| Starring | Danila Kozlovsky Svetlana Ivanova Oleg Menshikov Boris Shcherbakov Roman Madyanov Götz Otto Vladimir Menshov Daniel Olbrychski |
| Cinematography | Irek Hartovich |
| Edited by | Maxim Smirnov Pyotr Zelenov |
| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
Production company | Trite Studio |
| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 134 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | €13,7 million |
| Box office | $29.3 million |
Legend No. 17 (Russian: Легенда №17) is a 2013 Russian biographical sports film directed by Nikolai Lebedev and produced by Trite Studio. The film is based on real events and tells of the rise to fame of the Soviet hockey player Valeri Kharlamov and about the first match of the Summit Series USSR — Canada 1972.
The film was awarded with six Golden Eagle awards, including the best Russian film of the year.
The filmmakers received the State Prize of the Russian Federation for the year 2013.