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Film / 2021
The World Champion
Directed by
Alexey Sidorov
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Konstantin KhabenskiyKorchnoi
Ivan YankovskyKarpov
Vladimir VdovichenkovGradov
Victor DobronravovSergey Maksimov
Viktor SukhorukovViktor Baturinskiy
Diana PozharskayaVeronika
Anatoly KotIgor Zaytsev
Mikhail TroynikYuriy Balashov
Aleksandr FilippenkoLeonid Brezhnev
Larisa ShakhvorostovaKarpov's mother
Anton BogdanovVasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy MillerSevastyanov
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Zurab MiminoshviliGuladze
David BrodskyBoris Zelenin
Dmitriy IosifovMikhail Tal
Arseny TopolagaPavel
Denis KotovReporter
Anton LuninWedding photographer
Irina ZamulaFrench reporter
Sergey Taktarov
Vartan TorosyanAnnouncer's helper
Alyona KimMarisol
Leon AvtaevChess player
Fyodor DobronravovKarpov's father
Vladimir ZaytsevAranovich
Igor KhripunovPhilippov
Mark NobleSchmid
Josefin AsplundPaola
Peter Seaton-ClarkGofdrey
Junsuke KinoshitaKampomanes
Vladimir KhalturinSpasskiy
Pekka StrangFischer
Daniyar AlshinovCaptain Romeo
Armen AnanikyanPetrosyan
Vladimir AndreyevLuzhniki announcer
Cécile PleugePress room journalist
Sergey GenkinRoommate
Pyotr VinsMurei Yakov
Alexandr GorelovPolugaevskiy
Igor ZakharovGrigoriy Naumovich
Anastasiya ImamovaAccountant
Mikhail KalinichevZlatoust audience
Grant KagramanyanChess player
Nikolay DrozdovskyKorchnoi's parapsychologist
Ivan PerkovićFragella
Vladimir TashlykovProfessor Melnikov
Evgeny ChupinMain grandmaster
Sergey ShokolovBrezhnev's referent
Radoje ČupićKazhic
Grant AmiryanBit part
Aleksey Sitkin
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