GENRE

Sport,
Drama

LENGTH

117'

COUNTRY

Russia

RELEASE IN RUSSIA

February 2022

PRODUCTION COMPANY(IES)

Kinodom,
Telekompaniya

LANGUAGE

Russian,
English

For an athlete, overcoming fears and weaknesses is the only path to victory. 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.

DIRECTOR(S)

Artyom Mikhalkov

PRODUCER(S)

Aleksey Karpushin,
Ekaterina Zhukova

MR. KNOCKOUT

WRITER(S)

Oleg Presnyakov,
Vladimir Presnyakov

CURRENT STATUS

Completed

TYPE

Feature Film

BOOTH NUMBER

G03

CONTACT NAME

Nikolay Zlatopolskiy

Company name

JOB TITLE

VP International Distribution