The World Champion
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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Genre: Drama
Director: Alexey Sidorov, Ekaterina Molochnaya
Actors: Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoly Kot, Diana Pozharskaya, Ivan Yankovsky, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Larisa Shakhvorostova, Mikhail Troynik, Victor Dobronravov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Country: Russia