Going Vertical

Going Vertical
Three Seconds
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnton Megerdichev
Screenplay by
  • Nikolay Kulikov
  • Andrey Kureychik
Produced by
  • Leonid Vereshchagin
  • Anton Zlatopolsky
  • Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Vladimir Vasiliev
  • Aleksey Dubinin
  • Yekaterina Yakovleva
  • Sergei Gurevich
  • Aleksandr Utkin
Starring
CinematographyIgor Grinyakin
Edited by
  • Petr Zelenov
  • Anton Megerdichev
  • Vazgen Kagramanyan
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • 28 December 2017 (2017-12-28) (Russia)
Running time
133 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguagesRussian
English
Budget$11.5 million
Box office$66.3 million

Going Vertical, also known as Three Seconds (Russian: Движение вверх, romanized: Dvizhenie vverkh) is a 2017 Russian sports drama film directed by Anton Megerdichev about the controversial victory of the Soviet national basketball team over the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, ending their 63-game winning streak, at the Munich Summer Olympic's men's basketball tournament.

Upon its release on December 28, 2017, Going Vertical achieved critical and commercial success. With a worldwide gross of $66.3 million, Going Vertical was the highest-grossing modern Russian film of all time at the time of release.