Third Time (1963)
Original title: Третий тайм
Third Time is a 1963 Russian-language war movie directed by Yevgeni Karelov, with a running time of 1h 23m. It stars Yuri Volkov, Vladimir Kashpur and Leonid Kuravlyov.
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...
Cast
- Yuri Volkov as Sokolovsky
- Vladimir Kashpur as Kirill Zaitsev
- Leonid Kuravlyov as Lyonya Fokin
- Yuriy Nazarov as Misha Skachko
- Vyacheslav Nevinnyy as Savchuk
- Gleb Strizhenov as Yevgeni Ryazantsev
- Gennadiy Yukhtin as Dugin
- Aleksey Eybozhenko as Lemeshko
- Aleksandr Metyolkin as Pavlik
- Valentīns Skulme as Johan Dietrich
- Alfred Zinovyev as Jan Richter
- Ervin Knausmyuller as major Heinz