A Soviet coach discovers the beautiful game is rigged — and he's got receipts.
Oleg Norov, the coach of a soccer team, realizes that the matches are held according to the scheme of "secret totalizator" and decides to break the rules of the game not established by him. Self-investigation, which the coach starts, leads him to a fraudster nicknamed "Man Mountain".
Acting
Valentin Gaft's exhausted idealism carries every frame.
Direction
Gordon's slow dread builds like a match you can't win.
Director
Aleksandr Gordon
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