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.
Director:
Viktor Horinyak
Valery Popenchenko
Sergei 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
Lyudmila Grigorash
Alexandr Klassen
Evdokiya Lavrukhina
Andrey Sergeev
Anton Bystryakov
Alexey Morozov
Sayora Safari
Valeriy Dyachenko
Nikita Zverev
Ulrich Günther
Nikita Tarasov
Sergey Bachurskiy
Artyom Mikhalkov
Artur Vakha
Vladimir Sterzhakov
Segrey Tsepov
Igor Savochkin
Ivan Egorov
Aleksey Baydakov
Vitaliy Kovalenko
Alexander Vdovin
Artyom Osipov
Vasily Michkov
Paul Orlyanskiy
Olivier Siou
Junsuke Kinoshita
