Kicking Off
2013 · Movie · 100 min · ★ 6.2 · 64% critics
A group of hard-core soccer supporters live by fierce loyalty, identity, and violence, forming an exclusive circle that can be joined easily but never truly left. Based on actual events, the story looks at how ordinary lives can be pulled into a brutal fan culture.
Also known as Okolofutbola
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Details
- Original title
- Околофутбола
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-09-24
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Critic score
- 64/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (49 votes)
About
You might like this if you want a gritty, intense look at violent fan culture and group loyalty, especially if Final Score sounds appealing; Not for you if you want a light sports movie or uplifting crowd-pleaser.
Pros: gritty true-story premise; tense fan culture portrait; strong sense of loyalty | Cons: violent subject matter; bleak tone; narrow focus
Themes
- psychopath
- football (soccer) fan
Cast & crew
Pavel Erlikov
as Mazhor
Ivan Fominov
as Yari
Grigory Ivanets
as Britva
Aleksandr Ratnikov
as Ticher
Vladimir Tsarulkov
as football player
- DL
Denis Los
as traffic cop #1
Anton Bormatov
as accidental visitor of the Fan club
- ЮМ
Юлия Маньковская
as Dasha
Evgeny Berezin
as Elephant
Nikita Kukushkin
as Little One
Directed by Anton Bormatov