That's the Game

(1977)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 14 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1977

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Николай Малецкий, Владимир Попков

Cast: Степан Олексенко, Вячеслав Жолобов, Георгий Жжёнов, Николай Гринько, Александр Пашутин, Юрий Критенко, Борис Щербаков, Александр Мартынов, Александр Денисов, Антонина Лефтий

Plot

A conflict between the football team's coach and its best players, Bushuev and Milenkov, led to the players leaving the team. Milenkov returned to the research institute, while Bushuev moved to a provincial town, became a coach, and, basing his training on a scientific approach to the game, achieved great success in a short period of time...