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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
Josefin Asplund
Paola
Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov
Diana Pozharskaya
Veronika
Anton Bogdanov
Vasiliy Brykin
Pekka Strang
Fischer
Fyodor Dobronravov
Karpov's father
Igor Khripunov
Philippov
Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Mikhail Troynik
Yuriy Balashov
Sesil Plezhe
Press room journalist
Anatoly Kot
Igor Zaytsev
Dmitri Iosifov
Mikhail Tal
Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Karpov's mother
Sergey Genkin
Roommate
Vladimir Zaytsev
Aranovich
Junsuke Kinoshita
Kampomanes
Mark Noble
Schmid
Radoje Čupić
Kazhic
Anastasiya Imamova
Accountant
Daniyar Alshinov
Captain Romeo
Zurab Miminoshvili
Guladze
Vladimir Andreyev
Luzhniki announcer
Peter Seaton-Clark
Gofdrey
Vladimir Tashlykov
Professor Melnikov
Leon Avtaev
Chess player
Denis Kotov
Reporter
Alena Kim
Marisol
Igor Zakharov
Grigoriy Naumovich
Mikhail Kalinichev
Zlatoust audience
Nikolay Drozdovsky
Korchnoi's parapsychologist
Sergey Shokolov
Brezhnev's referent
Grant Kagramanyan
Chess player
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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