Soccer Poker

(1989)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 21 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1989

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: Poland

Director: Janusz Zaorski

Cast: Януш Гайос, Małgorzata Pieczyńska, Marian Opania, Mariusz Dmochowski, Ян Энглерт, Edward Linde-Lubaszenko, Olaf Lubaszenko, Mariusz Benoit, Adrianna Biedrzyńska, Bronisław Pawlik

Plot

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.