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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.

2021 |2h 25m |  Drama

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Konstantin Khabenskiy

Korchnoi

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Ivan Yankovsky

Karpov

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Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Gradov

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Victor Dobronravov

Sergey Maksimov

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Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Baturinskiy

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Diana Pozharskaya

Veronika

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Anatoly Kot

Igor Zaytsev

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Mikhail Troynik

Yuriy Balashov

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Aleksandr Filippenko

Leonid Brezhnev

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Larisa Shakhvorostova

Karpov's mother

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Anton Bogdanov

Vasiliy Brykin

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Dmitriy Miller

Sevastyanov

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Zurab Miminoshvili

Guladze

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David Brodsky

Boris Zelenin

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Dmitri Iosifov

Mikhail Tal

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Arseny Topolaga

Pavel

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Denis Kotov

Reporter

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Anton Lunin

Wedding photographer

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Sergey Taktarov

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Alena Kim

Marisol

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Leon Avtaev

Chess player

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Fyodor Dobronravov

Karpov's father

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Vladimir Zaytsev

Aranovich

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Igor Khripunov

Philippov

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Mark Noble

Schmid

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Josefin Asplund

Paola

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Peter Seaton-Clark

Gofdrey

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Junsuke Kinoshita

Kampomanes

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Vladimir Khalturin

Spasskiy

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Pekka Strang

Fischer

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Daniyar Alshinov

Captain Romeo

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Vladimir Andreyev

Luzhniki announcer

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Sesil Plezhe

Press room journalist

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Sergey Genkin

Roommate

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Igor Zakharov

Grigoriy Naumovich

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Anastasiya Imamova

Accountant

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Mikhail Kalinichev

Zlatoust audience

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Grant Kagramanyan

Chess player

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Nikolay Drozdovsky

Korchnoi's parapsychologist

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Vladimir Tashlykov

Professor Melnikov

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Evgeny Chupin

Main grandmaster

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Sergey Shokolov

Brezhnev's referent

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Radoje Čupić

Kazhic

More Details

Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

$7,535,000.00

Revenue

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