

The World Champion
2021
6.3
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Overview:
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.
Alexey Sidorov
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Nikita Mikhalkov
Producer
Leonid Vereshchagin
Producer
Anton Zlatopolskiy
Producer
Rafael Minasbekyan
Producer
Sergei Gurevich
Producer
Cast:
View full castKonstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi
Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov
Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya
Veronika