The World Champion

The World Champion

2021•2h 25m•6.1/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.1/10(36)

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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Production

Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia 1

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky

Ivan Yankovsky

Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Gradov

Victor Dobronravov

Victor Dobronravov

Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Baturinskiy

Diana Pozharskaya

Diana Pozharskaya

Veronika

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

Zurab Miminoshvili

Zurab Miminoshvili

Guladze

David Brodsky

David Brodsky

Boris Zelenin

Dmitriy Iosifov

Dmitriy Iosifov

Mikhail Tal

Arseny Topolaga

Arseny Topolaga

Pavel

Denis Kotov

Denis Kotov

Reporter

Anton Lunin

Anton Lunin

Wedding photographer

Irina Zamula

French reporter

Sergey Taktarov

Sergey Taktarov

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