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Film / 2022
Mr. Knockout
Directed by
Artyom Mikhalkov
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.
The story
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.
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
Valeriy Sklyarov
Maxim Antonnikov
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Dmitry Nikishkin
Viktor Babyuk
Lyudmila Grigorash
Alexandr Klassen
Evdokiya Lavrukhina
Anton Bystryakov
Aleksey Morozov
Sayora Safari
Valeriy Dyachenko
Nikita Zverev
Ulrich Günther
Nikita Tarasov
Sergei Bachursky
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
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