Young boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics. He fights the lead boxer, has a brief fling, and gets jailed for beating up a group he feels laughed at him during the drunken spree. But he is rehabilitated and gets a crack at the Olympics where he wins.
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Daniel Olbrychski Tadeusz Kalinowski Maciej Damięcki Jacek Domański Leszek Drogosz Jan Englert Gustaw Lutkiewicz Zdzisław Maklakiewicz Mieczysław Pawlikowski Jerzy Wasowski Bertina Acevedo Zygmunt Apostoł Jerzy Ćwikliński Kliment Denchev Marian Łącz Józef Łodyński Wiktor Nanowski Gabriel Nehrebecki Tadeusz Ordeyg Adam Perzyk Zbigniew K. Rogowski Jan Rudnicki Ivan Stefanov Luchezar Stoyanov Jan Tesarz Ryszard Wojciechowski Marian Wojtczak Jan Paweł Kruk Czesław Piaskowski Bohdan Tomaszewski
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