Sporting Honour (1951)

Sporting Honour (1951)

Release Date: 1951, June 11
Directors: Vladimir Petrov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Aleksei Gribov, Vladimir Vladislavskiy, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Margarita Lifanova, Gennadiy Sergeev, Anastasiya Zuyeva, Boris Sitko, Lev Frichinsky, Aleksandr Degtyar, Nikolay Kurochkin, Lev Fenin, Vadim Sinyavsky

Overview:

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.