The World Champion
2021-12-30 | 145 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Konstantin KhabenskiyKorchnoi
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Ivan YankovskyKarpov
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Vladimir VdovichenkovGradov
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Victor DobronravovSergey Maksimov
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Viktor SukhorukovViktor Baturinskiy
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Diana PozharskayaVeronika
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Anatoly KotIgor Zaytsev
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Mikhail TroynikYuriy Balashov
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Aleksandr FilippenkoLeonid Brezhnev
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Larisa ShakhvorostovaKarpov's mother
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Anton BogdanovVasiliy Brykin
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Dmitriy MillerSevastyanov
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Zurab MiminoshviliGuladze
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David BrodskyBoris Zelenin
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Dmitri IosifovMikhail Tal
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Arseny TopolagaPavel
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Denis KotovReporter
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Anton LuninWedding photographer
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Sergey Taktarov