Released:
1963-04-11

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...

Director:
Yevgeni Karelov

Runtime:
1h 23min

Genre:
War, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Yuri Volkov
  as
  Sokolovsky
• 
  Vladimir Kashpur
  as
  Kirill Zaitsev
• 
  Leonid Kuravlyov
  as
  Lyonya Fokin
• 
  Yuriy Nazarov
  as
  Misha Skachko
• 
  Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
  as
  Savchuk