Backstreet Champions

Backstreet Champions

2012 · 1 season · 4 eps · Drama

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Mykhalych is a former football player of a famous team, he is going through not the best times, and trying to assemble a team for the World Cup of football for the homeless. He is driven not only by love for sports, but rather by the need to break out of the "dead end" into which life has driven him. And also - an attempt to help the boys who ended up just on the street. And when the Ukrainian flag is raised in the final of the championship, these guys are unable to hold back tears of joy not only for themselves, but also for their country. And it is not important whether the country recognizes "its heroes" and what will happen to them later. The most important victory that changed their lives took place.

Directed by Akhtem Seitablaiev · Written by Vladimir Zhovnoruk

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Cast

Ivan Dobronravov Bodia
Oleksiy Horbunov Serhii Mykhailovych Ladyhyn (Football coach)
Elena Shamova Oksana Ladyhina
Dmytro Pevtsov Ivan Vasylovych Voskoboynikov (Tsar)
Oleksandr Kobzar Voron (Goalkeeper)
Arina Asadchaia Liza
Andrii Saminin Yasha (Jester)
Olga Lukianenko Svitka
Andrii Kronglevskyi Bison
Anton Vakhliovskyi Professor
Stanislav Boklan Hryhorii
Dmitriy Surzhikov Vladyslav

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