The film tells the story of the legendary Soviet boxer Valery Popenchenko, USSR and European champion and winner of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His life was a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs - from his childhood in Tashkent’s Suvorov Military School and service as a border guard, to his first victories and failures, and his friendship with Dynamo sports society coach Grigory Kusikyants.
100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?
Alexandr Ivanovich Vdovin (born January 1, 1949) - Russian actor, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1995). In 1971 he graduated from the Moscow Theater School. B. Schukin. He was an actor in the Moscow Theater of the Young Spectator, the Satirikon Theater. From Wikipedia (ru), the free encyclopedia