Third Time (1963)
The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...
Director: Yevgeni Karelov
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Yuri Volkov as Sokolovsky |
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Vladimir Kashpur as Kirill Zaitsev |
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Leonid Kuravlyov as Lyonya Fokin |
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Yuriy Nazarov as Misha Skachko |
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Vyacheslav Nevinnyy as Savchuk |
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Gleb Strizhenov as Yevgeni Ryazantsev |
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Gennadiy Yukhtin as Dugin |
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Aleksey Eybozhenko as Lemeshko |
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Aleksandr Metyolkin as Pavlik |
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Valentīns Skulme as Johan Dietrich |
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Alfred Zinovyev as Jan Richter |
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Ervin Knausmyuller as major Heinz |
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Valentina Markova as Sasha |
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Valentina Sharykina as Vera |
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Lidiya Dranovskaya as Ryazantseva |
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Nikolai Novlyansky as cleats seller |
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Vladimir Pitsek as german officer |
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Igor Pushkaryov as Kirillov |
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Aleksandra Danilova as Sasha's mother |
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Georgi Svetlani as hairdresser |
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Zoya Vasilkova as apartment owner |
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Igor Stravinskiy as переводчик |
| Directing | Yevgeni Karelov | Director |
| Sound | Andrey Petrov | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Boris Tsaryov | Production Design |
| Art | Felix Boguslavsky | Production Design |
| Writing | Aleksandr Borshchagovskiy | Writer |
| Sound | Raisa Margachyova | Sound |
| Writing | Aleksandr Borshchagovskiy | Novel |
| Camera | Sergey Zaytsev | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Klavdia Aleeva | Editor |