Pilkarski poker
1989, Film, 99 min, Action, Comedy, Drama, Polish, Poland, MoviePedia score 68
Winner takes all.
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.
Directed by Janusz Zaorski
Cast
- Janusz Gajos as Referee Jan Laguna
- Malgorzata Pieczynska as Irena 'Bribe'
- Marian Opania as Bolo
- Mariusz Dmochowski as 'Powisle' Chairman Kmita
- Jan Englert as 'Czarni' Chairman
- Edward Linde-Lubaszenko as Old Grom
- Olaf Lubaszenko as Olek Grom
- Mariusz Benoit as Józef Grundol
- Adrianna Biedrzynska as Grundol's Wife
- Bronislaw Pawlik as Mr. Bronek
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