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.
Viktor Horinyak | Sergei Bezrukov | Inga Strelkova-Oboldina | Evgeniya Dmitrieva | Angelina Strechina | Viktor Verzhbitskiy | Andrey Titchenko | 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 | Александр Вдовин | Artyom Osipov | Vasily Michkov | Paul Orlyanskiy | Olivier Siou | Junsuke Kinoshita