Girls Got Game

Girls Got Game (Russian: Нефутбол, romanized: Nefutbol, lit. 'Non-football') is a 2021 Russian sports comedy film directed by Maksim Sveshnikov.^[2][3] It was theatrically released in Russia on September 1, 2021, by Nashe Kino (English: Our Cinema).^[4]

Girls Got Game
Official poster in English
Directed by	Maksim Sveshnikov (ru)
Written by	Maksim Sveshnikov Vadim Sveshnikov Eduard Bordukov
Produced by	Artyom Vitkin Grigory Granovsky Mikhail Dvorkovich Maksim Sveshnikov Anna Dragunkina Mikhail Kolodyazhnyy
Starring	Lyubov Aksyonova Egor Koreshkov Yuliya Topolnitskaya Alina Alekseeva Aleksandra Kuzenkina Polina Aug Mariya Ivakova Valentina Lyapina Zarina Mukhitdinova
Cinematography	Kirill Begishev
Music by	Dmitry Emelyanov
Production companies	Revolution Film Russian World Vision Cinema Fund
Distributed by	Nashe Kino (Our Cinema)
Release date	September 1, 2021 (2021-09-01)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽92.3 million
Box office	$185 thousand[1]

Plot

Dasha "Danya" Belykh was told from childhood that football is not a woman's business, but she still became the captain of the football team. Here are just her team unexpectedly gathered to close. Only victory can save them. And Danya decides to gather her childhood friends, with whom she played football at school. It turns out to be not so easy, and then there is a coach - a former "star" with problems, who does not consider women's football to be football at all ... But having sent self-doubt, excess weight and problems on the personal front to the bench, the girls are eager to win not only in sports, but also in life.^[5]

Cast

• Lyubov Aksyonova as Daria "Danya" Belykh, captain of the football team
• Egor Koreshkov as Vadim Panov, coach
• Yuliya Topolnitskaya as Alina
• Alina Alekseeva as Nadya
• Aleksandra Kuzenkina as Lena Terekhina
• Polina Aug as Yulya Malysheva
• Mariya Ivakova as Kristina
• Valentina Lyapina as Ekaterina "Katya" Panova, the team's striker, Vadim Panov's daughter
• Zarina Mukhitdinova as Aliya
• Roman Madyanov as Palych
• Dmitry Miller as Kudryavtsev
• Mikhail Kremer as Artyom

Production

Filming took place in the city of Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, and the local metallurgical plant "TAGMET" became one of the key locations.^{[citation needed]}