# Eleven Silent Men

Eleven Silent Men (Russian: Одиннадцать молчаливых мужчин, romanized: Odinnadtsat molchalivykh muzhchin) is a 2022 Russian sports drama film directed by Alexey Pimanov's company Pimanov and partners. The film is the story of the legendary trip of Soviet football players "FC Dynamo Moscow" who came to Great Britain in November 1945 to play in famous English football clubs. It was with this epithet that British journalists dubbed Soviet athletes in the press (ru). The film stars Makar Zaporozhsky, Pavel Trubiner, Roman Kurtsyn, Andrey Chernyshov, Evgeniya Lapova, Alyona Kolomina, and Dmitry Belotzerkovsky joining the cast.
Eleven Silent Men is scheduled to be theatrically released on February 17, 2022, by Central Partnership.

## Plot

November 1945. Football Club Dynamo Moscow players fly to London to play a series of matches with hitherto undefeated British teams, including "Chelsea", "Arsenal", and "Rangers". A charming English correspondent decides to create a sensation by falling in love with the best Russian player, and chooses the prettiest "victim" among the Soviet athletes. Local unscrupulous bookmakers also intend to profit from the tour, within the framework of which the games will be visited by hundreds of thousands of fans... But the "eleven silent men", as the British dubbed the local football players, will present many surprises to everyone!
An incredible story based on real events, full of romance, good humor, spy adventures and football passions. Our football players not only did not lose a single match, but also won the hearts of the English public, completely turning the idea of a Russian person and a Soviet country upside down. "Dynamo" became a symbol of the new world, born on the ruins of the Second World War.

## Cast

| Cast | |
| Makar Zaporozhsky | Vsevolod Bobrov is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow, and bandy player |
| Alyona Kolomina | Abby, a special correspondent for a number of Western media |
| Pavel Kraynov | Vadim Sinyavsky, a radio commentator |
| Evgeniya Lapova | Victoria Strelkova, a diplomat |
| Andrey Chernyshov [ru] | Pepper, a sergeant in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain |
| Sofya Shutkina | Alexandra "Sasha" Eliseeva, a Moscow sports committee official |
| Olga Lerman | Valeria "Lera" Vasilyeva, Konstantin Beskov's fiancee |
| Actors | Soviet soccer player |
| Pavel Trubiner [ru] | Mikhail Yakushin is the team's coach of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Roman Kurtsyn | Alexei Khomich is a Soviet goalkeeper of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Aleksei Chechukevich | Vsevolod Radikorsky is a Soviet football player, defender of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Stanislav Raskachaev | Mikhail Semichastny is a Soviet football player, forward and captain of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Kirill Kuznetsov | Ivan Stankevich is a Soviet football player, defender of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Stanislav Kolodub | Vsevolod Blinkov is a Soviet football player, midfielder of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Aleksandr Korkunov | Leonid Solovyov is a Soviet football player, midfielder of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Ivan Stepanov | Boris Oreshkin is a Soviet football player, midfielder of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Vyacheslav Morozov | Yevgeny Arkhangelsky is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Vsevolod Makarov | Vasili Trofimov is a Soviet football player, right wing forward of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Aleksandr Alyoshkin | Vasili Kartsev is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Denis Denisov | Nikolay Dementyev is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Dmitry Belotzerkovsky | Konstantin Beskov is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Yuri Trubin | Sergey Solovyov is a Soviet football player, forward of FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Actors | English soccer player |
| Sergey Belyaev | Vic Woodley is an English goalkeeper of Chelsea F.C. |
| Gleb Gervassiev | Tommy Lawton is an English football player, a forward for Chelsea F.C. |
| Mark Kondratenko | Joe Buckuzzi is an English football player |

## Production

Especially for each actor playing a football player, a uniform was sewn, completely identical to the equipment of the athletes of 1945. A soccer ball and boots were recreated, made to order: with special carnations on which spikes were attached.

### Filming

Principal photography began in September 2019 and took place in Moscow, the municipal city of Pavlovsk and Pushkin to the city of Saint Petersburg, the city of Kaluga, Russia, and London, United Kingdom.

## Release

Eleven Silent Men was theatrically released in the Russian Federation on February 17, 2022, by Central Partnership.

### Marketing

The first trailer for the upcoming film was released on November 23, 2021.