Cosmoball (2020)
- Original title
- Вратарь Галактики
- Directed by
- Dzhanik Fayziev
- Genre
- fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, teen film, sport film
- Country
- Russia
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 256 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
In a future where Earth has been devastated by an alien war, a young man becomes a goalkeeper for a team that plays a high-stakes Cosmic sport. The fate of the planet rests on the outcome of a match between humans and aliens.
fast-pacedsuspensefulfuturisticepicenergeticpatrioticvisually flashy
What happens
Cosmoball, also known as Goalkeeper of the Galaxy (Russian: Вратарь Галактики, romanized: Vratar Galaktiki) is a 2020 Russian 3D superhero space opera film written and directed by Dzhanik Fayziev, based on the animated series Galactik Football, with the participation of the television channel Russia-1. The film is set in the future, a post-apocalyptic city in a world inhabited by survivors of an intergalactic war that has shifted the planet's poles. Above the city towers a huge alien ship - it is a stadium, the planet's fate rests in the hands of the willing and capable Cosmoball players who are defending the Earth. The fate of the planet depends on the result of the match between earthlings and aliens. Andrey Rubanov also participated in the writing of the script, and among the producers are Sergey Selyanov and Innokentiy Malinkin. It stars Yevgeny Romantsov as Anton a goalkeeper to the national team, alongside Viktoriya Agalakova, Maria Lisovaya, Ivan Ivanovich, Liza Taychenacheva, Yevgeny Mironov, and Elena Yakovleva in supporting roles. Location filming began on June 2, 2017 and principal photography locations included the Mosfilm Studios. Shooting took place at Mosfilmovskaya Street in Moscow, and lasted until mid-September 2017. The film required a wide use of computer-generated imagery to portray the rare alien races and space monsters. Cosmoball was scheduled to be theatrically released in Russia on August 27, 2020, in 2D, RealD 3D formats, with distribution in Russia handled by "Nashe Kino" (English: "Our Cinema"). The film was the first major Russian project to be released after the limitation of the number of viewers in cinemas due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. The film grossed 106 million rubles with a budget of 786 million rubles, becoming a box-office failure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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