Sporting Honour (1951)
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.
- Released
- 1951-06-11
- Genres
- Comedy, Adventure
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Vladimir Petrov, Nikolay Erdman, Mikhail Volpin
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Aleksei Gribov as Pyotr Semenovich Grinko
- Gennadiy Sergeev as Vitaly Petrovich Grinko
- Margarita Lifanova as Tonya Grinko, art student
- Lev Frichinsky as Nikolai Vetlugin
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Ivan Nikolaevich, coach of the Turbina team
- Aleksandr Degtyar as party secretary
- Boris Sitko as Surikov, head of DSO "Turbina"
- Anastasiya Zuyeva as Ekaterina Nikolaevna Grinko, mother of Vitaly and Tonya
- Vladimir Vladislavskiy as boss of the football team "Shorty"
- Lev Fenin as pastor
- Vadim Sinyavsky as football radio commentator
- Nikolay Kurochkin as Fan at the railroad station