Mr. Knockout (2022)
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:
Artyom Mikhalkov
Writers:
Vladimir Presnyakov, Oleg Presnyakov.
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Viktor Horinyak as Valery Popenchenko |
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Sergei Bezrukov as Grigory Filippovich Kusikyants |
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Inga Strelkova-Oboldina as |
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Evgeniya Dmitrieva as |
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Angelina Strechina as |
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Andrey Sergeev as tram passenger |
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Viktor Verzhbitskiy as |
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Andrey Titchenko as Valery Popenchenko in childhood |
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Oleg Chugunov as |
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Irina Romasheva as |
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Valeriy Sklyarov as |
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Maxim Antonnikov as |
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Dmitry Nikishkin as |
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Viktor Babyuk as |
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Lyudmila Grigorash as |
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Alexandr Klassen as |
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Evdokiya Lavrukhina as |
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Andrey Sergeev as |
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Anton Bystryakov as |
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Alexey Morozov as |
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Sayora Safari as |
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Valeriy Dyachenko as |
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Nikita Zverev as |
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Ulrich Günther as |
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Nikita Tarasov as |
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Sergey Bachurskiy as |
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Artyom Mikhalkov as |
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Artur Vakha as |
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Vladimir Sterzhakov as |
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Segrey Tsepov as |
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Igor Savochkin as |
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Ivan Egorov as |
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Aleksey Baydakov as |
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Vitaliy Kovalenko as |
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Alexander Vdovin as |
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Artyom Osipov as |
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Vasily Michkov as |
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Paul Orlyanskiy as |
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Olivier Siou as |
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Junsuke Kinoshita as |
| Production | Artyom Mikhalkov | Producer |
| Production | Anton Zlatopolskiy | Producer |
| Sound | Ivan Burlyaev | Music |
| Sound | Konstantin Kupriyanov | Music |
| Sound | Dmitriy Noskov | Music |
| Sound | Gennady Medvedev | Music |
| Art | Tatyana Zinchenko | Production Design |
| Directing | Artyom Mikhalkov | Director |
| Writing | Vladimir Presnyakov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Oleg Presnyakov | Screenplay |
| Camera | Yury Nikogosov | Director of Photography |
| Production | Aleksey Karpushin | Producer |
| Production | Ekaterina Zhukova | Producer |
| Art | Sergey Tyrin | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gulnara Shakhmilova | Costume Design |