Dmitry Kozelsky became the coach of Chelsea: “Eleven Silent Men” in cinema February 17
16 february 2022 · News
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The premiere of the feature film ‘Eleven Silent Men’ took place yesterday in Moscow. And tomorrow, February 17, the long-awaited film about the incredible tour of the Dynamo football team in England is released in all Russian cinemas. Dmitry Kozelsky played Chelsea coach Billy Birrell in the film.
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"Eleven silent men" is dedicated to the legendary tour of the Soviet football team Dynamo in Great Britain in 1945. The ‘ancestors’ of football looked down on non-professional Soviet players - locksmiths and plumbers from who saw the ball just between their work shifts. That game in 1945 ended with a score of 19: 9 in favor of the Moscow Dynamo. After that, the boys in Britain began to draw the letter “D” on their T-shirts and imagine themselves Soviet football players.
“This is one of the greatest events in the history of Soviet and Russian football. Soviet cinemas have been spinning a documentary about it for a year, ” director and producer Alexey Pimanov says. - There is no politics in the script; there are a lot of kindness, humor, drama, and, of course, football in it. We will show the story of how well two peoples treated each other in 1945."
“I formed a special cast for a very long time, they all know how to play football for real. This will be the first shooting when they will work without stuntmen. I hope that it will be real football and not the falsity. You know, the actor’s head, and the legs of a stuntman, ” Pimanov emphasized.