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The World Champion

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.

Release Date: 2021-12-30

Original Language: ru

Genres: Unknown Genre

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Cast Members

Victor Dobronravov

Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Baturinskiy

Anatoly Kot

Igor Zaytsev

Mikhail Troynik

Yuriy Balashov

Aleksandr Filippenko

Leonid Brezhnev

Larisa Shakhvorostova

Karpov's mother

Anton Bogdanov

Vasiliy Brykin

Dmitriy Miller

Sevastyanov

David Brodsky

Boris Zelenin

Dmitriy Iosifov

Mikhail Tal

Denis Kotov

Reporter

Anton Lunin

Wedding photographer

Irina Zamula

French reporter

Vartan Torosyan

Announcer's helper

Alyona Kim

Marisol

Leon Avtaev

Chess player

Fyodor Dobronravov

Karpov's father

Daniyar Alshinov

Captain Romeo

Vladimir Andreyev

Luzhniki announcer

Sesil Plezhe

Press room journalist

Pyotr Vins

Murei Yakov

Alexandr Gorelov

Polugaevskiy

Igor Zakharov

Grigoriy Naumovich

Mikhail Kalinichev

Zlatoust audience

Grant Kagramanyan

Chess player

Nikolay Drozdovsky

Korchnoi's parapsychologist

Vladimir Tashlykov

Professor Melnikov

Evgeny Chupin

Main grandmaster

Sergey Shokolov

Brezhnev's referent