Top Cast
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Grigory Chaban
Sergey
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Darya Kalmikova
La directrice
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Vladimir Svirskiy
L'entraîneur
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Irina Verbitskaya
Anya
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Ivan Anisimov
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Semen Krasnovsky
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Yury Ignatiev
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Arseny Vorobyev
Overview
The eighth-grade pupil Kirill Grishin accidentally turns a physical education class into a political action. It would have remained an insignificant school incident, if only his parents hadn’t found out.
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