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2021

2 hr 25 min

The World Champion

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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.

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Konstantin Khabenskiy's' Profile Image

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky's' Profile Image

Ivan Yankovsky

Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov's' Profile Image

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Gradov

Victor Dobronravov's' Profile Image

Victor Dobronravov

Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov's' Profile Image

Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Baturinskiy

Diana Pozharskaya's' Profile Image

Diana Pozharskaya

Veronika

Anatoly Kot's' Profile Image

Anatoly Kot

Igor Zaytsev

Mikhail Troynik's' Profile Image

Mikhail Troynik

Yuriy Balashov

Aleksandr Filippenko's' Profile Image

Aleksandr Filippenko

Leonid Brezhnev

Larisa Shakhvorostova's' Profile Image

Larisa Shakhvorostova

Karpov's mother

Anton Bogdanov's' Profile Image

Anton Bogdanov

Vasiliy Brykin

Dmitriy Miller's' Profile Image

Dmitriy Miller

Sevastyanov

Zurab Miminoshvili's' Profile Image

Zurab Miminoshvili

Guladze

David Brodsky's' Profile Image

David Brodsky

Boris Zelenin

Dmitriy Iosifov's' Profile Image

Dmitriy Iosifov

Mikhail Tal

Arseny Topolaga's' Profile Image

Arseny Topolaga

Pavel

Denis Kotov's' Profile Image

Denis Kotov

Reporter

Anton Lunin's' Profile Image

Anton Lunin

Wedding photographer

Irina Zamula

French reporter

Sergey Taktarov's' Profile Image

Sergey Taktarov

Vartan Torosyan

Announcer's helper

Alyona Kim's' Profile Image

Alyona Kim

Marisol

Leon Avtaev's' Profile Image

Leon Avtaev

Chess player

Fyodor Dobronravov's' Profile Image

Fyodor Dobronravov

Karpov's father

Vladimir Zaytsev's' Profile Image

Vladimir Zaytsev

Aranovich

Igor Khripunov's' Profile Image

Igor Khripunov

Philippov

Mark Noble's' Profile Image

Mark Noble

Schmid

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Josefin Asplund

Paola

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Peter Seaton-Clark

Gofdrey

Junsuke Kinoshita's' Profile Image

Junsuke Kinoshita

Kampomanes

Vladimir Khalturin's' Profile Image

Vladimir Khalturin

Spasskiy

Pekka Strang's' Profile Image

Pekka Strang

Fischer

Daniyar Alshinov's' Profile Image

Daniyar Alshinov

Captain Romeo

Armen Ananikyan

Petrosyan

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Vladimir Andreyev

Luzhniki announcer

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Sesil Plezhe

Press room journalist

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Sergey Genkin

Roommate

Pyotr Vins

Murei Yakov

Alexandr Gorelov

Polugaevskiy

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Igor Zakharov

Grigoriy Naumovich

Anastasiya Imamova's' Profile Image

Anastasiya Imamova

Accountant

Mikhail Kalinichev's' Profile Image

Mikhail Kalinichev

Zlatoust audience

Grant Kagramanyan's' Profile Image

Grant Kagramanyan

Chess player

Nikolay Drozdovsky's' Profile Image

Nikolay Drozdovsky

Korchnoi's parapsychologist

Ivan Perković

Fragella

Vladimir Tashlykov's' Profile Image

Vladimir Tashlykov

Professor Melnikov

Evgeny Chupin's' Profile Image

Evgeny Chupin

Main grandmaster

Sergey Shokolov's' Profile Image

Sergey Shokolov

Brezhnev's referent

Radoje Čupić's' Profile Image

Radoje Čupić

Kazhic

Grant Amiryan

Bit part

Director

Ekaterina Molochnaya

Assistant Director

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Alexey Sidorov

Director

Creator
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Alexey Sidorov

Screenplay

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