The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...

• Mosfilm
• Yuri Volkov
• Vladimir Kashpur
• Leonid Kuravlyov
• Yuriy Nazarov
• Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
• Gleb Strizhenov
• Gennadiy Yukhtin
• Aleksey Eybozhenko