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The World Champion

2021-12-30 Drama 2hr 25m

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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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
  • Revenue
    n/a
  • Budget
    $7,535,000
  • Runtime
    2hr 25m
  • Genre
    Drama
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    Pусский
  • imdb-logo
    0
  • Production
    Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia-1

Crew

Alexey Sidorov
Director
Alexey Sidorov
Screenplay

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Cast

Victor Dobronravov

Victor Dobronravov

Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Baturinskiy
Anatoly Kot

Anatoly Kot

Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik

Mikhail Troynik

Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko

Aleksandr Filippenko

Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova

Larisa Shakhvorostova

Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov

Anton Bogdanov

Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller

Dmitriy Miller

Sevastyanov
David Brodsky

David Brodsky

Boris Zelenin
Dmitriy Iosifov

Dmitriy Iosifov

Mikhail Tal
Denis Kotov

Denis Kotov

Reporter
Anton Lunin

Anton Lunin

Wedding photographer
Irina Zamula

Irina Zamula

French reporter
Vartan Torosyan

Vartan Torosyan

Announcer's helper
Alyona Kim

Alyona Kim

Marisol
Leon Avtaev

Leon Avtaev

Chess player
Fyodor Dobronravov

Fyodor Dobronravov

Karpov's father
Daniyar Alshinov

Daniyar Alshinov

Captain Romeo
Vladimir Andreyev

Vladimir Andreyev

Luzhniki announcer
Sesil Plezhe

Sesil Plezhe

Press room journalist
Pyotr Vins

Pyotr Vins

Murei Yakov
Alexandr Gorelov

Alexandr Gorelov

Polugaevskiy
Igor Zakharov

Igor Zakharov

Grigoriy Naumovich
Mikhail Kalinichev

Mikhail Kalinichev

Zlatoust audience
Grant Kagramanyan

Grant Kagramanyan

Chess player
Nikolay Drozdovsky

Nikolay Drozdovsky

Korchnoi's parapsychologist
Vladimir Tashlykov

Vladimir Tashlykov

Professor Melnikov
Evgeny Chupin

Evgeny Chupin

Main grandmaster
Sergey Shokolov

Sergey Shokolov

Brezhnev's referent

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