Screen Image of Sports Achievement in the Context of the Formation of Modern Sociocultural Paradigm

The article deals with the new tendency which appeared in the filmmaking process of the recent decades. Many filmmakers took the stories about sports achievements of the Soviet past and nowadays reality as the basis for the film script. They address to both real events and fictional stories. The most successful films about sports achievements (Legend No. 17, Moving Up, Ice) make it possible to identify the patterns, artistic and meaningful images and persistent mythologems, associated with this sphere of culture, which the filmmakers use. The desire of filmmakers to use such stories about athletes overcoming heavy physical, moral, and psychological stress reveals a high potential for interpreting character images and determining the mechanisms of interaction between the on-screen artistic expression on the audience. Films about sports achievements reflect the attitude of Russian cinema of the 2010s towards rethinking and adopting the elements of the great style of Soviet screen art in combination with the features of sports genres (sports drama, musical, dramedy), the narrative of a family saga, and motifs of war films. New Russian films about overcoming in the sphere of sport are able to correlate the past and present in the minds of viewers, giving society the opportunity to carry out the necessary adjustment of the sociocultural paradigm on the level of mental connections.