Soccer Poker

Mar 31, 1989

1h 39m

★ 7.4

Winner takes all.

Overview

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Zespół Filmowy "Dom"

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Cast

Jan Laguna

Janusz Gajos

Irena

Małgorzata Pieczyńska

Bolo

Marian Opania

Kmita

Mariusz Dmochowski

Prezes "Czarnych"

Jan Englert

stary Grom

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko

Olek Grom

Olaf Lubaszenko

Józef Grundol

Mariusz Benoit

żona Grundola

Adrianna Biedrzyńska

Bronek

Bronisław Pawlik

"Narciarz"

Borys Marynowski

sędzia Jaskóła

Henryk Bista

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