Synopsis
Win or Be Won (2022, 12+) — watch online on iFILM: a family sports drama directed by Alexander Basaev. Grishka is a sixth-grader at a competitive Moscow sports school, training in boxing and wrestling. His main rival is Alyosha Vardanin — from a well-off family, held to an exacting standard, not allowed to lose anything.
Both boys are in love with Irochka. Both want to win the school tournament. Then Grishka's father ends up in intensive care, and the boy has to manage alone. Meanwhile Alyosha, under pressure from his own home, tries to push his rival out of the picture. The film draws a clear line between placing first and actually winning — and makes the argument that the harder contest is the one happening off the mat. Watch Win or Be Won (2022) online on iFILM.
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