Canada Russia '72 (2006)
3h
Running Time
April 9, 2006Release Date
Plot.
In 1972, a historical ice hockey game series is arranged where the cream of Canadian's professional star players of the National Hockey League against the best of the Soviet Union. Although Canada and the USSR have faced off repeatedly on the amateur level before, most of Canada is smugly convinced that the Soviets will be no match for the pros. However, that assumption is forcefully shot down when Team Canada is soundly trounced in the first game by the skilled Soviet Union team. What follows is a bitter struggle as Team Canada fights to recover in a series that would change Canadian hockey's self-image and history forever.
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Cast & Crew.
Booth Savage
Paul Henderson
Mark A. Owen
John Ferguson
Judah Katz
Alan Eagleson
David Berni
Phil Esposito
Gabriel Hogan
Ken Dryden
Mike Dopud
Vic Hadfield
Gerry Dee
Wayne Cashman
Sebastien Roberts
Rod Gilbert
Media.
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This Movie Is About.
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Wiki.
Canada Russia '72 is a 2006 Canadian docudrama miniseries about the 1972 Summit Series, a series of exhibition ice hockey games between state amateurs of the Soviet Union and professional players from Canada. The two-part miniseries was directed by T. W. Peacocke and written by Barrie Dunn and Malcolm MacRury. Canada Russia '72 first aired on CBC on April 9–10, 2006.