Sporting Honour
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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.
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Cast
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Aleksei Gribov
Pyotr Semenovich Grinko
Known for
Striped Trip
The Twelve Months
Gennadiy Sergeev
Vitaly Petrovich Grinko
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Vladimir Petrov
Nikolay Erdman
Yuli Kun
Margarita Lifanova
Tonya Grinko, art student
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In Square 45
Green Lights
Mikhail Volpin
Grigori Sergeyev
Vitali Grinko
Lev Frichinsky
Nikolai Vetlugin
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Stars On the Wings
Our Neighbors
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Ivan Nikolaevich, coach of the Turbina team
Known for
Ballad of a Soldier
The Forty-First
Aleksandr Degtyar
party secretary
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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Boris Sitko
Surikov, head of DSO "Turbina"
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Height
Hunters in Siberia
Vladimir Petrov Director · Nikolay Erdman Screenplay Mikhail Volpin Screenplay
First release June 11, 1951 · Produced in Russia · Original title Спортивная честь
Production
Mosfilm
Production
Russia
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Original title
Спортивная честь
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 11, 1951
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Finland
July 18, 1952
Hungary
May 29, 1952
XC
May 2, 1952 · Theatrical
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