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 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