This is the game where the American team was robbed in the Olympics with bad officiating. The article mentions very little of this. Trailer from article below. It's kind of a detailed article to read.
Miracle on Maple: 1972 basketball Olympic champions and their relatives weigh in on a new blockbuster film that dramatizes the Soviet Union's upset victory over the U.S.A.
In late December 2017, the blockbuster sports drama “Going Vertical†hit Russian movie theaters. Based on the Soviet Union’s surprise victory over the supposedly unbeatable American team at the 1972 Munich Summer Games, the movie earned a whopping 1.4 billion rubles ($21 million) in its opening two weeks, surpassing a similar Russian sports movie from 2013 about hockey player Valery Kharlamov, â€Legend â„– 17,†which earned 922 million rubles. “Going Vertical†has been a smashing success at the box office, but not everyone embraces the film’s creative retelling of actual events. Two of the team members’ widows are even suing the production studio, arguing that the movie uses their life stories without permission. To learn more about their case, Meduza spoke to Alexandra Ovchinnikova (the widow of Alexander Belov, who scored the game-winning shot in 1972 and died at 26 of cardiac sarcoma) and Evgeniya Kondrashina (who was married to Vladimir Kondrashin, the Olympic team’s coach, who lived until 1999). We also talked to several of the team's surviving players, who have embraced the film.
Read more at: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/01/12/miracle-on-maple
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