Grandmaster
Chess player Sergei Khlobnikov never set winning as his goal in the game. Emotional and averse to pragmatism, he rarely won tournaments. But eventually, his time came.
Chess player Sergei Khlobnikov never set winning as his goal in the game. Emotional and averse to pragmatism, he rarely won tournaments. But eventually, his time came.
Andrey Myagkov
Sergey Khlebnikov
Viktor Korchnoi
Khlebnikov's Coach
Larisa Malevannaya
Elena Dontsova
Emmanuil Vitorgan
Orlov
Lyudmila Kasatkina
Mikhail Kozakov
Efim Kopelyan
Nikolai Volkov St.
Tamara Sovchi
Chess player Sergei Khlobnikov never set winning as his goal in the game. Emotional and averse to pragmatism, he rarely won tournaments. But eventually, his time came.
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
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The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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