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.
Directing | Artyom Mikhalkov | Director |
Writing | Vladimir Presnyakov | Screenplay |
Writing | Oleg Presnyakov | Screenplay |
Camera | Yury Nikogosov | Director of Photography |
Costume & Make-Up | Gulnara Shakhmilova | Costume Design |
Art | Sergey Tyrin | Production Design |
Production | Ekaterina Zhukova | Producer |
Production | Aleksey Karpushin | Producer |
Production | Artyom Mikhalkov | Producer |
Production | Anton Zlatopolskiy | Producer |
Sound | Ivan Burlyaev | Music |
Sound | Konstantin Kupriyanov | Music |
Sound | Dmitriy Noskov | Music |
Sound | Gennady Medvedev | Music |
Art | Tatyana Zinchenko | Production Design |