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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.

Top 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

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.

Rating

6.1 / 10
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