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.
Directed by Artyom Mikhalkov
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Viktor Horinyak
Valery Popenchenko
Sergey Bezrukov
Grigory Filippovich Kusikyants
Inga Strelkova-Oboldina
Evgeniya Dmitrieva
Angelina Strechina
Andrey Sergeev
tram passenger
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Andrey Titchenko
Valery Popenchenko in childhood
Oleg Chugunov
Irina Romasheva
Valeriy Sklyarov
Maxim Antonnikov
Dmitry Nikishkin
Viktor Babyuk
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