Biopic movie about the great Russian hockey player Valeri Kharlamov (1948-1981) goes on release in Russia.

      Legend N17 is dedicated to the first successes and achievement of personhood of the well-known hockey player Valeri Kharlamov (Danila Kozlovski). In the early 19070s it in many ways depended upon his complicated relations with the no less legendary trainer Anatoli Tarasov (Oleg Menshikov).

      The scriptwriters Nikolay Kulikov, Mikhail Mestetsky and the film director Nikolay Lebedev did not strive for documentary reliability too much, and though they worked a lot on study of Kharlamov’s biography, they aimed rather at romanticized and idealized image of an ambitious, purposeful and hardworking young man, who could serve as a model for young viewers.

      On August 27, 1981 Valeri Kharlamov, aged 33, was lost in a road accident together with his wife Irina, who was driving.