Mr. Knockout
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.
Top Billed Cast
Viktor Horinyak
Valery Popenchenko
Sergei Bezrukov
Grigory Filippovich Kusikyants
Featured Crew
Artyom Mikhalkov
Producer
Anton Zlatopolskiy
Producer
Ivan Burlyaev
Music
Konstantin Kupriyanov
Music
Dmitriy Noskov
Music
Gennady Medvedev
Music
Tatyana Zinchenko
Production Design
Artyom Mikhalkov
Director
Vladimir Presnyakov
Screenplay
Oleg Presnyakov
Screenplay
Yury Nikogosov
Director of Photography
Aleksey Karpushin
Producer
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