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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.

Directed byAlexey Sidorov

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 25m
Language
RU
Released
December 30, 2021
Budget
$7,535,000
Studios
Studio TriteCentral PartnershipKIT Film Studio

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Konstantin Khabenskiy

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky

Ivan Yankovsky

Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Gradov

Victor Dobronravov

Victor Dobronravov

Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Baturinskiy

Diana Pozharskaya

Diana Pozharskaya

Veronika

Anatoly Kot

Anatoly Kot

Igor Zaytsev

Mikhail Troynik

Mikhail Troynik

Yuriy Balashov

Aleksandr Filippenko

Aleksandr Filippenko

Leonid Brezhnev

Larisa Shakhvorostova

Larisa Shakhvorostova

Karpov's mother

Creative team
Directed by
Alexey Sidorov
Alexey Sidorov
Written by
Alexey Sidorov
Alexey Sidorov
Produced by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Leonid Vereshchagin
Leonid Vereshchagin

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