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The World Champion (2021)
Directed by Alexey Sidorov
Drama · 2h 25m
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.
Cast
Konstantin Khabensky
Korchnoi
Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov
Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya
Veronika
Anatoly Kot
Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik
Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov
Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
Crew
- Director
- Alexey Sidorov
- Screenplay
- Alexey Sidorov
- Director of Photography
- Mikhail Milashin
- Original Music Composer
- Artyom Vasilev
- Editor
- Dmitry Korabelnikov
- Producer
- Leonid Vereshchagin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Rafael Minasbekyan, Alexey Sidorov, Sergei Gurevich, Anton Zlatopolskiy
Details
- Original title
- Чемпион мира
- Release date
- 2021-12-30
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Russia
- Production
- Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia
- Budget
- $7,535,000