The Footballer
1991, Russian. Directed by Aleksandr Gordon.
Oleg Norov, the coach of a soccer team, realizes that the matches are held according to the scheme of "secret totalizator" and decides to break the rules of the game not established by him. Self-investigation, which the coach starts, leads him to a fraudster nicknamed "Man Mountain".
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 July 1991
- Original title
- Футболист
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Anatoliy Stepanov
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The Footballer runs 90 minutes (1h 30m).
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The Footballer isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 July 1991. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Footballer?
The Footballer (1991) was directed by Aleksandr Gordon and stars Valentin Gaft, Evgeniy Lazarev, Vladimir Ferapontov.