The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.

Three Seconds

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.

Cennet

The most part of action of the movie happens in studio of a talk show where the political scientist, the patriot, a popdiva and other characters headed by the leader discuss a figure and heritage of the Reverend Sergey of Radonezh. In the middle of the record Leader unexpectedly learns that his program is closed. Having decided that him has nothing to lose, the Leader goes for broke and seeks "to expose" first of all - church, the power, the interlocutors - But the effect turns out at all not on what it counted. In the heat of brisk and even furious polemic we begin to start to see clearly true Sergey of Radonezh, and in history episodes as in a mirror we guess problems of modern Russia.