Lev Yashin. The Goalee of My Dreams
# Lev Yashin. The Goalee of My Dreams

Lev Yashin. The Goalee of My Dreams (Лев Яшин. Вратарь моей мечты, transl. Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper) is a 2019 Russian biographical sports drama film, unfolded in the historical period of the 50s and 60s of the USSR, telling the audience about the legend of the Soviet Union national football team.

The project was directed by Vasiliy Chiginskiy, and the script was written by Aleksandr Polozov and produced by Oleg Kapanets about the life of the famous Soviet football goalkeeper Lev Yashin, where most of the characters are real people. The film stars Aleksandr Fokin as Yashin, with Yulia Khlynina, Aleksei Guskov, and Aleksei Kravchenko.

The film was theatrically released in Russia on November 28, 2019, by Megogo Distribution.

## Plot

The film tells about the legendary goalkeeper Lev Yashin, thanks to which the USSR team in the mid-20th century won the most significant football awards.

May 27, 1971. Moscow, waiting for the farewell match of football goalkeeper Lev Yashin. For the first time in the history of the Soviet football player, all the stars of world football will be honored.

In anticipation of this event, Lev Yashin recalls the people and the matches with which his career was associated – and the ridiculous goal conceded in the first match for the main Dynamo squad, after which he sat on the bench for 2 years; and hard training, returning him to the main team; and speaking for the Soviet Union national football team at the 1960 European Nations' Cup; and failure at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, which could put an end to his career; and the match for the world team on October 23, 1963, in London.

## Cast

| Cast | Soviet Footballer of the Year |
| - | - |
| Aleksandr Fokin | Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper |
| Yulia Khlynina | Valentina Yashina, Lev Yashin's wife |
| Aleksei Guskov | Mikhail Yakushin, head coach of the FC Dynamo Moscow in 1953–1960 |
| Aleksei Kravchenko | Alexei Khomich, a goalkeeper of the FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Yevgeny Dyatlov [ru] | Arkadiy Chernyshov, hockey coach of the HC Dynamo Moscow |
| Vitaliy Khaev | Aleksandr Ponomaryov, head coach of the Soviet Union Olympic football team |
| Mikhail Eliseev | Gavriil Kachalin, head coach of the Soviet Union national football team in 1968–1970 |
| Yan Tsapnik | TASS own correspondent |
| Aleksandr Samoylenko | Mishurin, an official of the USSR Sports Committee |
| Aleksandr Bukharov | Konstantin Beskov, head coach of the FC Dynamo Moscow in 1967–1973 |
| Yuri Galtsev | director of school |
| Boris Shcherbakov | Mironych, bus driver |
| Alexander Pyatkov | Mikhalych, janitor |
| Yaroslav Zhalnin [ru] | Vladimir Shabrov, Lev Yashin's friend |
| Yevgeny Antropov | Mikhail Galunov, childhood friend of Lev Yashin |
| Andrey Leonov | Nikolay Ozerov, Soviet sports commentator |
| Actors | USSR soccer player |
| Oleg Kapanets | Ivan Stankevich, second coach of the FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Mikhail Khimichev [ru] | Vsevolod Blinkov, coach of the FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Ivan Titov | Valentin Ivanov, football player |
| Anzhey Novosyolov | Valeriy Voronin, football player |
| Yaroslav Leonov | Eduard Streltsov, football player |
| Artyom Yeshkin | Viktor Ponedelnik, football player |
| Dmitriy Belotserkovskiy | Igor Netto, captain of the USSR national football team |
| Pavel Shevando | Anatoliy Ilin, football player |
| Vladimir Guskov | Igor Chislenko, football player |
| Yuriy Trubin | Alekper Mamedov, football player |
| Aleksandr Luchinin | Viktor Tsaryov, football player |
| Igor Silchenko | Boris Kuznetsov, football player |
| Andrey Klavdiev | Genrikh Fedosov, football player |
| Yevgeny Romantsov | Konstantin Krizhevskiy, football player |
| Aleksandr Ragulin | Vasiliy Trofimov, football player |
| Aleksandr Alyoshkin | Vladimir Savdunin, football player |
| Stanislav Raskachaev | Sergey Salnikov, football player |
| Vakhtang Makhareishvili | Mikhail Meskhi, football player |
| Dmitriy Arbenin | Valentin Bubukin, football player |
| Ruslan Nakhushev | Anatoliy Bubukin |
| Aram Vardevanyan | Nikita Simonyan, football player |
| Danila Tezov | Vladimir Kesarev, football player |
| Gleb Gervassiyev | Vladimir Belyaev, football player |
| Irakliy Kvantrishvili | Valter Sanaya, football player |

## Production

### Filming

The production began in 2014, in collaboration between members of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Dynamo Sports Club Association. The filming was done in Moscow and its suburbs in collaboration with the VTB Bank and FC Dynamo Moscow. About the film's oversight work was Amon Sergei Stepashin, the former Russian interior minister, who wanted to make sure to produce a biographical film about the life of the renowned doorman.

The film received approval and support from veterans of domestic sports, partners of Lev Yashin in games for the club and the USSR national team, from the goalkeeper's family and numerous Dynamo fans.

## Release

Premiere of the film Lev Yashin. The Goalee of My Dreams was held in Moscow at the October cinema center on November 25, 2019, and was theatrically released in the Russian Federation on November 28, 2019, by Megogo Distribution. The television premiere of the film took place on June 12, 2020, Russia Day with a celebration on Channel One.

