Overview
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...
Cast
- Yuri Volkov as Sokolovsky
- Vladimir Kashpur as Kirill Zaitsev
- Leonid Kuravlyov as Lyonya Fokin
- Yuriy Nazarov as Misha Skachko
- Vyacheslav Nevinnyy as Savchuk
- Gleb Strizhenov as Yevgeni Ryazantsev
- Gennadiy Yukhtin as Dugin
- Aleksey Eybozhenko as Lemeshko
- Aleksandr Metyolkin as Pavlik
- Valentīns Skulme as Johan Dietrich