That's the Game (1977)
A conflict between the football team's coach and its best players, Bushuev and Milenkov, led to the players leaving the team. Milenkov returned to the research institute, while Bushuev moved to a provincial town, became a coach, and, basing his training on a scientific approach to the game, achieved great success in a short period of time...
Directors: Nikolai Maletsky, Vladimir Popkov.
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Stepan Oleksenko as Николай Бушуев |
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Vyacheslav Zholobov as Вячеслав Миленков |
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Georgi Zhzhyonov as Басов Виктор , тренер -"диктатор" |
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Mykola Hrynko as Лавров Валерий — дирек. фут. клуба высшей лиги |
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Aleksandr Pashutin as доктор Сеня - с прогрес. метод. работы |
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Yuri Krytenko as Леопольд Григорьевич, админ. "Искры" |
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Boris Shcherbakov as Женя Синицын |
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Aleksandr Martynov as Федор Комлев |
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Aleksandr Denisov as Иван Беспалов |
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Antonina Leftiy as Ольга |
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Evgeniy Karnaukhov as German team trainer |
| Camera | Nikolay Zhuravlyov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Mikhail Rakovskiy | Production Design |
| Directing | Nikolai Maletsky | Director |
| Directing | Vladimir Popkov | Director |
| Writing | Stanislav Tokarev | Writer |
| Writing | Vyacheslav Vinnik | Writer |
| Writing | Yuri Vizbor | Lyricist |
| Sound | Yuri Vizbor | Songs |
| Sound | Yuri Goretsky | Sound Director |
| Directing | T. Vorobyova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | L. Len | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | S. Poberezhnaya | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | I. Zhuravlyova | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Tamara Serdyuk | Editor |
| Writing | Emilia Kosnichuk | Script Editor |
| Art | Zh. Maykova | Assistant Production Design |
| Camera | Aleksandr Moskalenko | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Igor Nurulin | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | S. Yankovenko | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | V. Komissarenko | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | G. Gorpinchenko | Second Assistant Director |
| Lighting | M. Kaylik | Lighting Artist |
| Visual Effects | Valeriy Osadchiy | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | Mikhail Polunin | VFX Artist |
| Writing | Mikhail Oshemkov | Script Consultant |
| Writing | A. Romanenko | Script Consultant |
| Production | Igor Chalenko | Executive Producer |