“Mosfilm” presents: 10 best films about sports from the legendary studio

Genre: comedy

Director: Andrei Frolov

Main actors: Vladimir Volodin, Ivan Pereverzev, Nadezhda Cherednichenko

Comedy about a novice boxer who dreams not about his career, but about marriage with his favorite girl, became the leader of hire in 1947. Cinemas were bursting with viewers – according to rough estimates, the film was watched by about 20 million people.

A simple Siberian guy Nikita Krutikov falls in love on the eve of a crucial match and is ready to give up his championship titles. Only to be with his beloved. Coach Ivan Privalov develops a whole plan to get his pupil back into the sport. By the way, the role of the champion of Moscow, with which in the final fight fights Nikita, played Anatoly Stepanov – USSR boxing champion in 1946 in the heavyweight.

Genre: war drama

Director: Eugene Karelov

Main actors: Yuri Volkov, Vladimir Kashpur, Leonid Kuravlevlev

The plot of the movie is based on the historical events of the so-called “death match” – a soccer match between the German Luftwaffe team and a team of former players of Dynamo Kiev. Then the prisoners-soccer players faced a choice – to lose and survive or to win and be shot.

Genre: drama

Director: Rafail Goldin

Main actors: Vladimir Ivashov, Elsa Lezhdei, Nikolai Ozerov, Nikolai Rybnikov

The Moscow team “Rockets” has a new coach. He relies on the youth, and puts the veterans, who almost led the team to the finals, on the bench. This decision leads to a conflict with the club captain Duganov, who also finds himself on the list of “old guys”. But young players can not overpower their opponents without the help of experienced athletes.

Genre: drama

Director: Valery Kremnev

Main actors: Alexander Martynov, Tatiana Vasilyeva, Roman Gromadsky

The movie is based on the real story of the famous Olympic champion, Soviet jumper and record holder Valery Brumel. The legend of Soviet sports himself wrote the script for the picture. In 1965, Valery was in a terrible car accident – the champion was practically torn off the right foot. In those years, surgeons worked a miracle, they were able to piece together the ligaments and tendons and saved the leg from amputation. Within a year, Valery underwent 27 operations. And after another five months Brumel started training. Two months later, the athlete was able to take the height of 205 cm at international competitions! In the movie, according to the idea of the director, the hero was named Victor Motyl (Brumel did not want a direct reference to his own person).

Genre: drama

Director: Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin

Main actors: Stanislav Chekan, Alexander Mikhailov, Anatoly Solovyov.

A movie about the life of the famous wrestler Ivan Poddubny. Before becoming a legend, he had to endure many trials. Always next to Poddubny was his faithful friend Anatoly Durov, who later became a famous clown trainer.

Genre: crime drama

Director: Alexander Gordon

Main actors: Valentin Gaft, Evgeny Lazarev, Boris Khimichev

Oleg Norov in the past – a soccer player, and in the present – a coach. One day he learns about a secret sweepstakes. Having started an investigation, Norov comes to the conclusion that some matches are purposely merged. Corruption is rampant in the highest sporting circles, and the coach is ready to challenge the unscrupulous businessmen. His main goal – to disrupt the contractual match.

Genre: drama

Director: Andrei Razumovsky

Main actors: Vladimir Samoilov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Tatiana Tashkova

The hockey team now has a new coach. His methods are extremely harsh and in some ways even cruel. Yes, the team becomes a champion, but along with it there is a discord inside. The players cannot stand the tyranny and abuse of the tyrant coach. He is challenged by the team captain Krynin. But not all friends are ready to support him – they are afraid to lose their place in the club and lose the titles of champions.

Genre: drama

Director: Nikita Orlov, Junya Sato

Main actors: Tatiana Tashkova, Valery Ryzhakov, Inara Gulieva.

A touching picture about friendship and rivalry of two volleyball players – Tanya from the USSR and Megumi from Japan. Both girls have a difficult fate. Megumi lost her parents early, and sport became her salvation. Tanya turns from the leader of the volleyball team into an outsider because of a defeat. In her heart she gives up her career and regrets that she devoted so much time and effort to it. On the eve of the Olympics-80 in Moscow, Tanya and Megumi meet. This meeting changes the lives of both girls.

Genre: melodrama

Director: Isaac Friedberg

Main actors: Svetlana Zasypkina, Irina Metlitskaya, Dmitry Zubarev

16-year-old Tanya Serebryakova is a titled champion in artistic gymnastics. At one of the competitions she gets a spinal injury, but the coach insists that the girl continued to perform. Tanya wins the championship, but the injury was too serious. On the professional career is put a cross, and the girl begins to live the life of an ordinary schoolgirl. But she is used to lead and win in everything, in communication with her classmates she keeps arrogant. It is difficult for the former champion to get used to ordinary life, she considers herself superior to others and boasts of imaginary privileges. Even teachers can not find a solution to the new girl. The only one who did not bend under her authority is a classmate Lyosha, in whom Tanya falls in love.

Genre: comedy

Director: Vladimir Petrov

Main actors: Alexei Gribov, Gennady Sergeev, Margarita Lifanova

Vetlugin – a simple factory worker – suddenly becomes a player of the soccer club “Turbine”. The captain of the team does not accept the newcomer and builds intrigues – all in order that the worker was kicked out. Good-natured Vetlugin does not even realize that he is trying to survive, because the guy was loved by other members of the team. And the coach makes on the newcomer big bets in a responsible match with a foreign club. By the way, the comedy was very much disliked by critics and sports commentators. Those were dissatisfied with the behavior of the team captain and believed that the players would never act this way.