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A spitball is a now-illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of a foreign substance such as saliva or petroleum jelly. This technique alters the wind resistance and weight on one side of the ball, causing it to move in an atypical manner.
Going Vertical, also known as Three Seconds (Russian: Движение вверх, romanized: Dvizhenie vverkh) is a 2017 Russian sports drama film directed by Anton Megerdichev about the controversial victory of the Soviet national basketball team over the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, ending their 63-game winning streak, at the Munich Summer Olympic's men's basketball tournament.
The Diamond Arm (Russian: Бриллиантовая рука Brilliantovaya ruka) is a Soviet crime comedy film made by Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by director Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Svetlana Svetlichnaya.
In 2022, several major international film distributors, including The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros stopped screening films in Russia in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [4] Produced feature films (2016) [1] Total: 101: Number of admissions (2016) [1] Total: 193,500,000
It is the largest Wikipedia written in any Slavic language, surpassing its nearest rival, the Polish Wikipedia, by 20% in terms of the number of articles and fivefold by the parameter of depth. [4] In addition, the Russian Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia written in Cyrillic [5] or in a script other than the Latin script. In April 2016, the ...
The film was written as the entry point in a film series. [5] The film stars Olga Kurylenko as the protagonist "Alexis", James Purefoy as the antagonist "Mr. Washington", and Morgan Freeman as the U.S. senator. [4] Vincent Cassel was originally to star opposite Kurylenko, [7] but was replaced by Purefoy.
Guardians (Russian: Защитники, romanized: Zashchitniki) is a 2017 Russian superhero film [1] directed by Russian-Armenian filmmaker Sarik Andreasyan and starring Sebastien Sisak, Anton Pampushnyy, Sanzhar Madiyev, Alina Lanina, Valeriya Shkirando and Stanislav Shirin.
The Silver Skates (Russian: Сере́бряные коньки́, romanized: Serebryanye konki, also in some languages known as City of Ice) is a 2020 Russian epic period romantic adventure film directed by Michael Lockshin in his feature directorial debut, with a screenplay written by Roman Kantor, and produced by Petr Anurov.