The film tells the story of an ordinary guy Anton Kandidov. First he works on agricultural work — transports on boat on Volga watermelons. Noticing how deftly Anton catches and loads watermelons, he is told that he could become a goalkeeper and play football. And he decides to follow the advice. On the way to the glory of the goalkeeper and waiting for his victory and disappointment.
Cast
Grigory Pluzhnik
Anton Kandidov
Tatyana Guretskaya
Grusha
Lyudmila Glazova
Nastya
Anatoli Goryunov
Karasik
Valeri Solovtsov
Bukhvostov
Yakov Gudkin
Foma
Vladimir Kryuger
Tsvetochkin
German Erasmus
Ryzhy
Fyodor Kurikhin
Football fan (uncredited)
Konstantin Gibshman
Doctor (uncredited)
Erna Mashkevich
Spectator (uncredited)
Tatyana Rayt
(uncredited)
Ivan Sizov
Stadium cleaner (uncredited)
Crew
Semyon Timoshenko
Director
Lev Kassil
Writer
Lazar Yudin
Writer
Vladimir Danashevsky
Director of Photography
Igor Chernyak
Executive Producer
A. Goldburt
Production Assistant
Pyotr Yakimov
Production Design
Vladimir Kalyagin
Production Design
Vladimir Yakovlev
Assistant Camera
V. Muravyov
Sound Director
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Georgiy Abramov
Songs
Sofya Ivnitskaya
Songs
Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach
Lyricist
