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The World Champion (2021)
Directed by Aleksey Sidorov
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.
Length 145 minutes
Actors
Konstantin Khabenskiy | Ivan Yankovsky | Vladimir Vdovichenkov | Victor Dobronravov | Viktor Sukhorukov | Diana Pozharskaya | Anatoly Kot | Mikhail Troynik | Aleksandr Filippenko | Larisa Shakhvorostova | Anton Bogdanov | Dmitriy Miller | Zurab Miminoshvili | David Brodsky | Dmitri Iosifov | Arseny Topolaga | Denis Kotov | Anton Lunin | Irina Zamula | Sergey Taktarov | Vartan Torosyan | Alena Kim | Leon Avtaev | Fyodor Dobronravov | Vladimir Zaytsev | Igor Khripunov | Mark Noble | Josefin Asplund | Peter Seaton-Clark | Junsuke Kinoshita | Vladimir Khalturin | Pekka Strang | Daniyar Alshinov | Armen Ananikyan | Vladimir Andreyev | Sesil Plezhe | Sergey Genkin | Pyotr Vins | Alexandr Gorelov | Igor Zakharov | Anastasiya Imamova | Mikhail Kalinichev | Grant Kagramanyan | Nikolay Drozdovsky | Ivan Perković | Vladimir Tashlykov | Evgeniy Chupin | Sergey Shokolov | Radoje Čupić | Grant Amiryan