The World Champion
2021 · ★ 6.5 · Dir. Alexey Sidorov
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.
- Released
- 2021-12-30
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Language
- RU
- Budget
- $7.5M
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Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi
Anatoly Kot
Igor Zaytsev
Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov
Mikhail Troynik
Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov
Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
Diana Pozharskaya
Veronika
Zurab Miminoshvili
Guladze
David Brodsky
Boris Zelenin
