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.
- Year : 2021
- Country : Russia
- Genre : Drama
- Studio : Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia-1
- Keyword : chess, chess champion
- Director : Alexey Sidorov
- Cast : Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Yankovsky, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Victor Dobronravov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Diana Pozharskaya