The World Champion
2021•6•2h 25m•6.1•Released
Drama
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.
Director
Alexey Sidorov
Writer
Alexey Sidorov
Budget
$8M
Languages
Russian
Studio
Studio Trite
Cast
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi
Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov
Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya
Veronika
Anatoly Kot
Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik
Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov
Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
Zurab Miminoshvili
Guladze
David Brodsky
Boris Zelenin
Dmitriy Iosifov
Mikhail Tal
Production
Company
Studio Trite
Company
Central Partnership
Company
KIT Film Studio
Company
Cinema Foundation of Russia
Producer
Nikita Mikhalkov
Producer
Leonid Vereshchagin
Producer
Rafael Minasbekyan
Producer
Anton Zlatopolskiy
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