Even before the release of the film, he aroused sharp criticism from Evgeniya Kondrashina and Alexandra Ovchinnikova (widows of Vladimir Kondrashin and Alexander Belov), and Yury Kondrashin (son of Vladimir Petrovich). In their opinion, the authors of the film were plunged into their private lives, including information about it in the script without their consent.
The last scenes of the film - the scenes of the final match of the 1972 Olympic Games basketball tournament between the USSR and the US national teams - were filmed in the first filming days. Instead of a crowd of fans, advertising and other attributes of the Munich match, the shooting technique used the "chromakey" technology.
The widow of Vladimir Kondrashin complained to the movie's production team regarding the portrayal of her husband and spreading information about his life. The director Megerdichev said that he talked to her assuming that everything was agreed. Therefore the name of the team's coach is named Garanzhin and not Kondrashin. A similar issue, only without big changes, happened also with the widow of the player Alexander Belov.