NZ Film Festival " RED ARMY "

“They were one of the greatest ice hockey teams in history, winning Olympic gold medals and regularly vanquishing their US and Canadian rivals. They were also the poster boys for a Soviet system they themselves had started to question. Welcome to the Red Army team of the 1980s, now the subject of a new documentary executive-produced by Werner Herzog…

Western audiences will be startled by some of its revelations about sporting stardom behind the Iron Curtain. The famous old Bill Shankly formulation about football being ‘much, much more’ than a matter of life and death takes on an ironic resonance when applied to elite Soviet athletes.” — Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent