The World Champion

Dec 30, 2021

2h 25m

★ 6.1

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Studio Trite

Central Partnership

KIT Film Studio

Cinema Foundation of Russia

Russia 1

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Cast

Korchnoi

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Karpov

Ivan Yankovsky

Gradov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Sergey Maksimov

Victor Dobronravov

Viktor Baturinskiy

Viktor Sukhorukov

Veronika

Diana Pozharskaya

Igor Zaytsev

Anatoly Kot

Yuriy Balashov

Mikhail Troynik

Leonid Brezhnev

Aleksandr Filippenko

Karpov's mother

Larisa Shakhvorostova

Vasiliy Brykin

Anton Bogdanov

Sevastyanov

Dmitriy Miller

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