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Status
Released
Release
1951
Runtime
1h 47m
Vetlugin, a worker at a Ural factory, becomes a member of the Moscow soccer team "Turbina". The captain and center forward Vitaly Grinko, known to the whole country, is jealous of the newcomer and tries to defame the simple-minded player. The whole team takes the side of the newcomer, criticizes the captain's behavior, and wins in the game with a foreign team.
13 Cast Members
Aleksei Gribov
Pyotr Semenovich Grinko
Gennadiy Sergeev
Vitaly Petrovich Grinko
Margarita Lifanova
Tonya Grinko, art student
Lev Frichinsky
Nikolai Vetlugin
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Ivan Nikolaevich, coach of the Turbina team
Aleksandr Degtyar
party secretary
Boris Sitko
Surikov, head of DSO "Turbina"
Anastasiya Zuyeva
Ekaterina Nikolaevna Grinko, mother of Vitaly and Tonya
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
boss of the football team "Shorty"
Lev Fenin
pastor
Vadim Sinyavsky
football radio commentator
Nikolay Kurochkin
Fan at the railroad station
Nadezhda Kovalyova
Peasant
