The World Champion

The World Champion (2021)

6.0 145 min Movie
Drama

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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Cast

Konstantin Khabensky Konstantin Khabensky 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

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