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