Two Half-Times In Hell 1961 HUN SUB ENG, ITA 1080p WEB-DL x264

Year: 1961
Country: Hungary
Director: Zoltán Fábri
Cast: Imre Sinkovits, Dezsö Garas, József Szendrõ, István Velenczei
IMBD: Link

Language : Hungarian
Subtitles : English, Italian





Kiev, Ukraine. August 9, 1942: in a city where only 80,000 citizens will survive the Nazi occupation after 778 days; on a hot and sultry afternoon, a soccer match takes place at the Zenith stadium between Start FC, made up of former Ukrainian players who are prisoners of war, and Flakelf, made up of former German players who are Luftwaffe soldiers.

In a stadium filled mainly with Nazis, collaborators, and a few Ukrainians, old people, women, and children; on an afternoon when “the heat was so intense it could crack watermelons,” as Valentina Goncharenko, then thirteen, recounted, the teams took to the field at five o'clock. One was in peak physical condition and health, the other made up of men exhausted and weakened by hunger and hardship. When they presented themselves to the German commanders in the stands, the Ukrainian players did not give the Nazi salute as they had been ordered to do, but raised their arms to the sky, then brought them to their chests and, in unison, shouted the Soviet motto at the top of their voices: “Fitzcult Hura!” (long live physical culture). “Hura” was also the battle cry of the Red Army soldiers when they went into battle, and many German soldiers present had already heard it clearly in battle. This provoked furious anger among the Germans and joyful enthusiasm among the few Ukrainians present in the stadium. The referee, an SS officer, blew the whistle to start the game and, after a few minutes, Trusevich, the Start goalkeeper, was hit on the head in a scramble in front of goal and lay dazed on the ground for several minutes. Flakelf had to avenge the 5-1 defeat suffered just three days earlier in the first final: an affront to Aryan superiority that had to be erased by revenge, at all costs.

The Germans attacked decisively, counting on their opponents' weakened condition. After fifteen minutes, they took the lead to the delight of the stadium, which anticipated a landslide victory. For the Ukrainian team, it was like a slap in the face, and shortly after, Kuzmenko equalized with a masterful free kick.

In the 30th minute, Goncharenko, Start's most talented player, took the ball from midfield and slalomed through the German defense with a series of dribbles and feints before slotting the ball into the net. Before the end of the half, he scored again with a magnificent volley to make it 3-1. At halftime, G. Shvestov, a local collaborationist businessman and president of the Football League of Occupied Ukraine, came down to the locker room and advised the Ukrainian players to let the Germans win for the sake of everyone. Immediately afterwards, a senior SS officer also entered the Start dressing room and, in perfect Russian, calmly and coldly, while emphasizing their football skills, explained to the Ukrainian players that they could not and must not win that match, otherwise the consequence would be their death: at stake was not a soccer match, but the very image of the Third Reich, which at that moment was represented by the Flakelf.

The Ukrainian players returned to the field ignoring the “advice” they had received and continued to dominate the game, bringing the score to 5-3. At the end of the game, Klimenko even skipped past the German goalkeeper, but instead of scoring another goal, he turned around and kicked the ball towards his own goal. This was an affront to the Nazis. The referee immediately ended the game without waiting for the regulation time to elapse. The stands emptied quickly, and the few Ukrainian spectators celebrated, drunk with joy and pride: even if only for a few minutes, they felt free and proud thanks to those eleven sweaty, exhausted boys with gaunt faces and weakened bodies, symbols of the honor and dignity of their land of Ukraine, like a star pointing the way to liberation.

They were the only ones left on the field and, as testified by Goncharenko, one of the only three survivors of that match, it began to dawn on them that their existence was no longer worth anything and that, with the end of that match, the end of their lives was also sealed.

Goncharenko himself recounts in his memoirs: "We found ourselves in the gloomy and sombre silence of the empty stadium, alone in the middle of the field. We realized that our goals had also sealed our death sentence. We lingered on the field as if being there would make us feel safe and secure. Fear began to take hold of us. We had simply done what we thought was right: not to be heroes, but as Ukrainians who defended the honor of men and footballers with dignity. We were scared of what would happen to us. Just like at the start of the game, we had that same fear that we had banished with the cry of ‘Hura’. So much fear that we were even afraid to show it.

A team of subhumans (as Slavs were referred to in Nazi terminology) had humiliated representatives of the chosen Aryan race and even had the audacity to rejoice publicly, displaying their hatred for the occupiers in front of the people of Kiev. Revenge would be relentless: "We had no weapons, but we had the chance to fight and win at least on the battlefield for our flag, for our homeland, for the Ukrainian people. The Nazis would have to realize that it would not be easy to subdue us and trample on our dignity," Goncharenko said.

There are many versions of how the Ukrainian players died: verified historical documents tell us that the first to die was Mykola Korotikh, on August 16, under Gestapo torture, accused of espionage and of being a member of the Communist Party. He died without revealing anything to his torturers. On August 18, seven other players were sent to the notorious Syrets forced labor camp; three of them were killed in February 1943: Ivan Kuzmenko, Oleksey Klimenko, and Mykola Trusevich, the legendary goalkeeper of Dynamo Kiev and captain of Start. Surviving witnesses described their end as follows:

"Kuzmenko was beaten with sticks and then executed on the ground; Klimenko was also beaten with sticks and shot in the back of the head while lying on the ground. Trusevich, the giant goalkeeper and captain, was beaten ferociously, got up from the ground bleeding and shouted in the face of his tormentors: ‘Our Rosso Sport will never die’. A guard killed him with a burst of machine-gun fire. He died wearing his Start goalkeeper's jersey."

Their bodies were then thrown into the Babi Yar ravine, a cliff near Kiev tragically known for being the site where more than 100,000 people were killed and thrown during the Nazi occupation. The only survivors of the team were Fedor Tjutcev, Mikhail Sviridovskij, and Makar Goncharenko, who managed to escape from the camp to join the Red Army in the liberation of Kiev. The other players were lost in concentration camps where they perished, never to return.

In 1971, a sculpture by Ivan Horovyi was placed in the Zenit stadium in Kiev, on which the words of Stepan Oliynyk were engraved:

For our beautiful existence,
They fell in battle.
For centuries your glory will not fade,
Fearless heroes and athletes.

Today, the monument no longer exists: it was destroyed in one of the many raids carried out by Euromaidan gangs. This is what “Western democratic civilization” has come to. Also on the right side of the main entrance to Zenit Stadium—renamed Start Stadium in 1981—there is a plaque that reads: “To someone who deserves it.” It is dedicated to Makar Goncharenko, who scored twice in the “death match.”

Three films have been made and several books written about this legendary page in history, including the memoirs of M. Goncharenko. In 1962, The Third Half by Soviet director Evgenij Karelov and Two Halves in Hell by Hungarian director Zoltan Fabri were released. The combination of these two films gave rise to a third in 1981, Escape to Victory by John Huston, which, although it claims to be based on historical events, is in fact highly fictionalized and not faithful to the real events. (Enrico Vigna)

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Name: Two Half-Times In Hell.Zoltán Fábri.1961.WEB-DL.mkv
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:31:22 +0200
Size: 4,202,600,699 bytes (4007.912349 MiB)

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Production date: Fri, 06 May 2022 10:39:55 +0200
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DRF=1: 429 ( 0.236 %)
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standard deviation: 7.09697
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This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 8-10-2025 22:16:45