The World Champion
Chempion mira
2021, Film, 145 min, Drama, History, Sport, Russian, Russia, MoviePedia score 63
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.
Directed by Aleksey Sidorov
Cast
- Ivan Yankovskiy as Anatoliy Karpov
- Konstantin Khabenskiy as Viktor Korchnoy
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Gradov
- Fyodor Dobronravov as Evgeniy Karpov
- Viktor Sukhorukov as Viktor Baturinskiy
- Diana Pozharskaya as Veronika
- Aleksandr Filippenko as Leonid Brezhnev
- David Brodskiy as Boris Zelenin
- Viktor Dobronravov as Sergey Maksimov
- Mikhail Troynik as Yuriy Balashov
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