SYNOPSIS
Melodrama
Author: Yan Lekh
He is Stepan, a student of the Institute of Physical Culture, a boxer.
She is Svetlana, a student of the Pedagogical University, a biologist, a geographer.
First meeting. Dancing at the local House of Culture. They dance. Go to the buffet. Miserable student dinner. « - Walk you home? – It would be helpful, I’m for a first time here… - Me too…» Trajectories coincided. Local hooligans are outside the House. A small fight. Now she is looking at him as a defender. « - You are so … nimble. – Here so. If you are not nimble, someone gives you the stick. Nothing special. We have competitions, please, come. At least to the final. It will be interesting».
Ordinary sports hall, spacious, the ring in the middle, spectators benches. No fences. Provincial tournament. Final fight. She is among the spectators. Worries very much. Challenger’s blow and her hero flies to the floor. She changes in her face. And falls unconscious. Someone shouts: «Need a doctor!». The doctor grumbles but helps her. Fight is continuing. Stepan stands up, the judge counts. Stepan is not only knocked down, but also has a dissection on the face. What a long boxing fight for Stepan! Challenger beats and beats the weakened fighter. Svetlana rushes to the ring:
- Stepan! Dear!
Screams with anguish, very feminine. A real drama! Bloodied Stephen suddenly strikes such a blow that an arrogant challenger falls down. He does not get up. Call the doctor. Coaches are coming. Stepan stands in his corner of the ring, looks at Svetlana. She cries, whispers: «Stepan! Stepan!».
Someone from the organizers of the tournament angrily and loudly says: «Who brought this hysteric? Who? Where did you come lady? This is boxing!!!»
They walk down the street.
- Will you stop boxing? – she asks.
- How can I stop? This is my life.
- For me?
- For me, - he repeats mechanically.
- But I love you! Don’t you understand!?
She cries again, wants to leave. He holds her, hugs …
… The hour of visits in the maternity hospital. Svetlana's mom passes a small packet to her daughter.
- And where is Stepan? He promised me to come.
- He went to the competition. To Chelyabinsk. He gave you a note.
Svetlana unfolds a piece of paper « I'm sorry. I love you. This is my last fight». She reads, reads and reads again.
- I feel bad, Mum, - she says.
And loses consciousness on the chair.
- Doctor!
- Urgently wheelchair! Faster! Faster!
Operating of the maternity hospital. She opens her eyes. And screams. For a long time. Moans.
Doctor:
- Calm down. Calm down. Everything will be fine.
Svetlana in the ward, pale, no blood in her face.
Nurse:
- Everything will be ok. We have one more boxer. Congratulations!
Svetlana smiles faintly, whispers:
- Anybody except a boxer.
… Svetlana leads her boy to dance classe.
- You are great, Kostya! You are doing good.
Kostya:
- Nothing good! All the girls tease me that I am so small and clumsy.
- Don’t pay attention. You must have emotional stability. You are a man!
- Men do not dancing.
- Oh yes. I hear the familiar words. Talked heart to heart with Dad again? Did you arrange a competition again? This fight on the hands, who fights whom.
Kostya is quickened:
- I defeated Dad twice! Shook his hand on the table! That’s how should fight!
- Don’t even think about it! Throw out all this fight and boxing out of your head! You will get a success in dancing.
The boy bends down again:
- Dancing. Dancing. I hate these girls. And also to dance with them.
- I was a girl also.
- You're not a girl, you're a Mom - says the little philosopher.
The family lives in a dormitory. Very plainly. Father is a boxing trainer, mother is a teacher of biology and geography. Father is going to the capital for the World Boxing Championship
- Why? - Svetlana asks her husband.
- Look at the great people. This happens rarely. World Cup in our country. Cubans, Americans will come. This is the highest level! I need to see this, may be it will be a chance to talk with the coaches of great athletes, meet friends. Guys definitely come. Life is scattered us around cities and even different countries. It's also important. They have some of their own methods, achievements, techniques.
- Oh, I know your methods ...
- Svetlana ... And?
- Don’t allow!!
Husband, collecting all the money, still decided to go to the capital.
- Kostya, watch the world boxing championship on TV - he says to his son. - I waved my hand. This means that I am sending you my regards.
- All right - says Kostya. - If only Mom allows.
Father smiles sadly:
- And you can turn on the World Cup itself. You are a man. When my mother is not at home.
…Mother:
- What are you doing near the TV? Go for a walk, play soccer.
- Need to improve mathematics, - says the son.
- Well, - praises mother. - Great. And then you'll go to the courses of accountants. Very good profession. Always with money. I'll go to the store and the hairdresser to do my hair. I turn gray with the excitement for your Dad. He went to competitions again. But I forgive everything. Because I love you.
Kostya lays notebooks and books on the table.
Mom leaves - Kostya turns on the TV. Broadcast of the World Boxing Championship. He stares for a fight. Cuban three times knocked down our athlete, our athlete three times knocked down the Cuban on the floor. Fantastic fight! Kostya worries very much. Come on! He did not see his father. Probably he was shown earlier.
Father returns from the capital - the boy runs to meet him.
- Dad! Cuban so, and our so!
Waving in the air with little hands.
Father pulls out of the bag new boxing gloves and a helmet, bought for the last money, gives it to his son and improvises the phrase:
- Take it! This is a gift. The world champion Kurnyavka, who defeated the Cuban, gave it to you.
The boy is simply overwhelmed by ecstasy.
When the boy at 10 years was preparing for the first fight in the ring, his mother diligently ironed sports uniform, children's jersey, panties. Her men decided to fight, she could not leave them. The boy was going to fight confident that the world champion gave him gloves and a helmet. He had no right to lose …
Speaker:
Konstantin Tishko - rising star of domestic boxing. Most recently, he confidently defeated the Cuban athlete in the final of the Junior World Championships. Defeating the Cuban in Cuba is something enchanting. And the young boy from the Siberian province in the National Championship final. He faces an experienced boxer, two-time European champion, prize-winner of the Olympic Games
... Konstantin won.
The coaches of the team arranged for them one more fight at the regional tournament. And again Konstantin defeated an experienced boxer. Coaches decided to hold a hard sparring during the sports camp. Konstantin won. He has already received a member of the national team uniform. There was preparation for the championship of Europe, which issued a named license for participation in the Olympic Games. Kostya was filled with hopes and trained very hard. But by the decision of the Council of Trainers, he was expelled from the team. Experienced boxer cannot spoil the game. And this youngster ...
- Mom, I'm going home - he said in a settled voice, dialing the number on the phone.
- What happened? - cried mother. - What?
- Come and tell you. Or ask Dad….
Together with his personal trainer (another person, not a father) they go to the temple. Baptized. And went home. Unscheduled vacation.
A few days later the phone rings at night.
- Kostya! - yells the coach - Raimkul lost the first fight at the European Championship! We have a chance to go to the Olympics. Today we resume training …
Now it was impossible to stop him.
Although he was told that the gold medal of the Olympics in his weight was bought by guys from one southern country. And, the truth, in full-time combat, the points were wound only by the representative of this country. And then there was a clash - and because of the dissection the challenger was removed from the tournament.
In the quarterfinals he faced the world champion from Kazakhstan. Few people believed in Konstantin Tishko. However, he won. He confidently defeated athletes from North and South Korea in the semifinals and finals.
Champion!
He immediately called his mother: "Do not worry, Mom! Everything is fine. I love you"....
He went to the second Olympics after losing the World Cup in Chicago. Injury of the cervical region reduced effectiveness in combat. Mom and his beloved woman, wishing him well, again in their own way, tried to protect their dear man from the trials.
But he went on to storm the peaks. It was another box. More stingy on the movements, but - pragmatic, accurate, hard. In the finals he met a Frenchman, a naturalized African. Higher on the head than Kostya. A new man in boxing, fresh, not knowing what an urban suffocating smog.
Konstantin won.
Two-time Olympic champion in boxing!
The story of the two-time Olympic boxing champion in detail, with lots of interesting episodes, is told in the novel "Long fight with the shadow" (author J. Leh). The documentary film "The Anatomy of the Champion" (directed by V. Golovnev) was shot based on the novel "Long fight with the shadow" and became the winner and laureate of two international documentary film festivals.
I'm sorry. I love you…
LOGLINE
Melodrama
He is a boxer, she does not like boxing. But she loves him. He stops boxing for her, for their family. They become a parent of a son. And the struggle continues.
She takes her son to the dance. He brings the helmet and gloves from the World Cup, says that this is a gift from the world champion to his son. Mother, the ideal of feminine wisdom, irons sports uniform for her boy. Her men decided to fight, she could not leave them. The boy becomes a great fighter. He won two Olympic gold medals, having overcome the intrigues of now strangers.