Album 61
2013•1h 10m•Released
Documentary
The World Chess Championship is a juicy battle, rife with passion, power and money. Boris Gelfand has spent his entire life getting ready for this moment; he was raised to become a champion since the age of six. His father devoted all his life to cultivating Boris' talent while obsessively documenting the process. The photo albums tell the father's story as much as that of the son, revealing a simple truth about a man living his own dreams through his son under the Soviet regime. Can any child, given fine Soviet education, become a genius? And is becoming a genius worth the price?
Director
Halil Efrat
Writer
Halil Efrat
Languages
Hebrew, Russian
Studio
The New Fund for Cinema and TV
Cast
Boris Gelfand
Self
Viswanathan Anand
Self
Ilya Smirin
Self
Albert Kapengut
Self
Maxim Rodhstein
Self
Pavel Eljanov
Self
Evgeny Tomashevsky
Self
Vladimir Kramnik
Self
Abram Izakovitsh
Self (archival footage)
Nela Gelfand
Self
Eduard Zelkind
Self
Tamara Golovei
Self
Garry Kasparov
Self
Andrei Filatov
Self
Manja Gelfand
Self
Production
Company
The New Fund for Cinema and TV
Company
MYmovies
Company
yes
Producer
Lee Yardeni
Producer
Aviram Buhris
Producer
Idit Kliger
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