Mr. Knockout (2022)
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.
Drama
Cast
- 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
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