Sporting Honour

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Vladimir Petrov

Writers

Nikolay Erdman, Mikhail Volpin, Mikhail Semichastniy

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

Release date

11 June 1951

Ensemble

Cast

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  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

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  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

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  Vadim Sinyavsky

  football radio commentator

• Nikolay Kurochkin

  Fan at the railroad station