The Winner
About The Winner
Coach Ivan Privalov of the Meteor club finds the discharged soldier Nikita Krutikov at a strength tester in a park and decides to make him a champion. Nina, whom Nikita is courting, the director of the Siberian farm he came from, and Privalov's wife, who wants him to quit coaching, are the three things that can stop it. Before the fight with Yuri Rogov, Nikita proposes. Nina, who has promised the coach, says she will marry him only after the bout. The farm director arrives and Nikita boards a train for Vladivostok. He changes trains, gets back for the fight, and loses to Rogov. After the loss he starts to train as a boxer rather than a strongman.
Cast & crew
More about The Winner
Andrey Frolov directed. Aleksandr Filimonov wrote it. Fyodor Firsov photographed. Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi wrote the music. Mosfilm, 1946. Runtime 77 minutes. The Russian title is Pervaya perchatka, The First Glove. English Wikipedia uses that title. The catalog title is The Winner.
Themes
Making
A Mosfilm sports comedy built on three interruptions: the girl, the farm director, and the coach's wife.
Look
Fyodor Firsov photographed it.
Music
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi wrote the music.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Ivan Pereverzev plays Nikita Krutikov. Vladimir Volodin plays coach Privalov. Anastasiya Zuyeva is in the cast.
- Also credited: Nadezhda Cherednichenko, Sergei Blinnikov, and Vladimir Gribkov.
- Shishkin of the Motor club is the rival coach. The attendant Savelich and the masseur Lubyago are Privalov's friends.
- A file is on Wikimedia Commons as 1946. Первая перчатка.webm.
Scenes
- Privalov spots Nikita at the park strength tester.
- Nikita turns back from the Vladivostok train and loses the bout to Rogov.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1946. Первая перчатка.webm)
