The World Champion (2021)
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.
- Released
- 2021-12-30
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Alexey Sidorov, Alexey Sidorov
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 from 40 votes
Cast
- Konstantin Khabensky as Korchnoi
- Ivan Yankovsky as Karpov
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Gradov
- Victor Dobronravov as Sergey Maksimov
- Viktor Sukhorukov as Viktor Baturinskiy
- Diana Pozharskaya as Veronika
- Anatoly Kot as Igor Zaytsev
- Mikhail Troynik as Yuriy Balashov
- Aleksandr Filippenko as Leonid Brezhnev
- Larisa Shakhvorostova as Karpov's mother
- Anton Bogdanov as Vasiliy Brykin
- Dmitriy Miller as Sevastyanov