

That's the Game
1977, Russian. Directed by Nikolai Maletsky & Vladimir Popkov.
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...
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Nikolai MaletskyDirector
- Vladimir PopkovDirector
- Stepan OleksenkoНиколай Бушуев
- Vyacheslav ZholobovВячеслав Миленков
- Georgi ZhzhyonovБасов Виктор , тренер -"диктатор"
- Mykola HrynkoЛавров Валерий — дирек. фут. клуба высшей лиги
- Aleksandr Pashutinдоктор Сеня - с прогрес. метод. работы
- Yuri KrytenkoЛеопольд Григорьевич, админ. "Искры"
- Boris ShcherbakovЖеня Синицын
- Aleksandr MartynovФедор Комлев
- Aleksandr DenisovИван Беспалов
- Antonina LeftiyОльга
- Evgeniy KarnaukhovGerman team trainer
Details
- Released
- 1 August 1977
- Original title
- Такая она игра
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Stanislav Tokarev, Vyacheslav Vinnik
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That's the Game runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).
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That's the Game isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 August 1977. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed That's the Game?
That's the Game (1977) was directed by Nikolai Maletsky and Vladimir Popkov and stars Stepan Oleksenko, Vyacheslav Zholobov, Georgi Zhzhyonov.