A stubborn-looking middle-aged man is getting ready for an interview. He soon starts speaking frankly to the camera and the director. It’s Slava Fetisov, the legendary hockey hero that brought the gold medal to Soviet Russia and the current Russian Minister for Sports. He recollects his early days when he first started playing hockey. During the Cold War when both East and Western Europe were crazy about hockey, games were not just fierce matches but almost like real wars. Highly competitive minds of Cold War were soon led a rift over players’ admiration of Western Europe and Soviet Russia’s government’s oppression. Gabe Polsky, who dreamed of being a hockey player when young, creates a constant tension with Fetisov in front of camera and maintains a balanced critical distance both to Soviet Russia regime’s violent oppression and to Western Europe’s consumer capitalism. The moment when a sports hero and scapegoat of the time overlaps with the powerful head of the Sochi Olympics, the movie reveals the over-determined relation between the individual, authority and ideology. (Jin PARK)