

The Boys from Leningrad
1954, Russian. Directed by Semyon Timoshenko.
Comedy about brothers Vesnushkin, Sasha and Vasya, who are playing for one team in a National Soccer Competition. However, Sasha falls in love with a beautiful girl and loses his confidence just before the final game, so his brother has to take the lead on the field in order to save the game.
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Semyon TimoshenkoDirector
- Georgiy VitsinVasya Vesnushkin
- Vsevolod KuznetsovSasha Vesnushkin
- Pavel KadochnikovDedushkin Svetlanov
- Tatyana KonyukhovaValya Oljeshko
- Valentina UshakovaKartashova
- Mark BernesKolmyagin
- Vladimir BelokurovTsvetkov
- Yelena TyapkinaVesnuskina
- Konstantin AdashevskyIvan Innokentich, factory director
- Nikolai RybnikovCast
- Mariya MironovaCast
- Boris KokovkinCast
Details
- Released
- 6 June 1954
- Original title
- Запасной игрок
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Semyon Timoshenko
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The Boys from Leningrad runs 83 minutes (1h 23m).
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The Boys from Leningrad isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 6 June 1954. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Boys from Leningrad?
The Boys from Leningrad (1954) was directed by Semyon Timoshenko and stars Georgiy Vitsin, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Pavel Kadochnikov.