The film tells the story of the legendary Soviet boxer Valery Popenchenko, USSR and European champion and winner of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His life was a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs - from his childhood in Tashkent’s Suvorov Military School and service as a border guard, to his first victories and failures, and his friendship with Dynamo sports society coach Grigory Kusikyants.
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Cast
- Viktor HorinyakValery Popenchenko
- Sergey BezrukovGrigory Filippovich Kusikyants
- Inga Strelkova-Oboldina
- Evgeniya Dmitrieva
- Angelina Strechina
- Andrey Sergeevtram passenger
- Viktor Verzhbitskiy
- Andrey TitchenkoValery Popenchenko in childhood
- Oleg Chugunov
- Irina Romasheva
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- Artyom MikhalkovDirector
- Oleg PresnyakovScreenplay
- Vladimir PresnyakovScreenplay
- Yury NikogosovDirector of Photography
- Anton ZlatopolskiyProducer
- Artyom MikhalkovProducer
- Ekaterina ZhukovaProducer
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