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The World Champion
2021, Dec 30
2h 25m
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 by
Alexey Sidorov
Dmitriy Iosifov
Mikhail Tal
Josefin Asplund
Paola
Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi
Igor Khripunov
Philippov
Anton Bogdanov
Vasiliy Brykin
Diana Pozharskaya
Veronika
Mikhail Troynik
Yuriy Balashov
Anatoly Kot
Igor Zaytsev
Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Karpov's mother
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov
Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
Fyodor Dobronravov
Karpov's father
Vladimir Zaytsev
Aranovich
Pekka Strang
Fischer
Zurab Miminoshvili
Guladze
Mark Noble
Schmid
Junsuke Kinoshita
Kampomanes
Anastasiya Imamova
Accountant
Daniyar Alshinov
Captain Romeo
Radoje Čupić
Kazhic
Vladimir Andreyev
Luzhniki announcer
Leon Avtaev
Chess player
Alyona Kim
Marisol
Grant Kagramanyan
Chess player
Sesil Plezhe
Press room journalist
Nikolay Drozdovsky
Korchnoi's parapsychologist
Vladimir Tashlykov
Professor Melnikov
Sergey Genkin
Roommate
Sergey Shokolov
Brezhnev's referent
Peter Seaton-Clark
Gofdrey
Mikhail Kalinichev
Zlatoust audience
Igor Zakharov
Grigoriy Naumovich
Denis Kotov
Reporter
David Brodsky
Boris Zelenin
Arseny Topolaga
Pavel
Anton Lunin
Wedding photographer
Sergey Taktarov
Vladimir Khalturin
Spasskiy
Evgeny Chupin
Main grandmaster
Irina Zamula
French reporter
Vartan Torosyan
Announcer's helper
Pyotr Vins
Murei Yakov
Alexandr Gorelov
Polugaevskiy
Ivan Perković
Fragella
Grant Amiryan
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