The World Champion
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2021-12-30
Runtime: 145 mins
Director: Alexey Sidorov
Spoken language: Pусский
Genres: Drama
Original title: The World Champion
Production Companies: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia 1
Production Countries: Russia
Cast
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Ivan Yankovsky
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Victor Dobronravov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Diana Pozharskaya
Anatoly Kot
Mikhail Troynik
Aleksandr Filippenko
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Anton Bogdanov
Dmitriy Miller
Zurab Miminoshvili
David Brodsky
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