

The World Champion
2021-12-30 · 145 min · ★ 6.0
Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.
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- Directors
- Alexey Sidorov
- Production companies
- Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia
- Countries
- Russia
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 7,535,000
Top Cast
Konstantin KhabenskyKorchnoi
Ivan YankovskyKarpov
Vladimir VdovichenkovGradov
Victor DobronravovSergey Maksimov
Viktor SukhorukovViktor Baturinskiy
Diana PozharskayaVeronika
Anatoly KotIgor Zaytsev
Mikhail TroynikYuriy Balashov
Aleksandr FilippenkoLeonid Brezhnev
Larisa ShakhvorostovaKarpov's mother
Anton BogdanovVasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy MillerSevastyanov
Zurab MiminoshviliGuladze
David BrodskyBoris Zelenin
Dmitriy IosifovMikhail Tal
Arseny TopolagaPavel
Denis KotovReporter
Anton LuninWedding photographer
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