The World Champion
Released: December 30, 2021Runtime: 145 minLanguage: RU
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.
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Ivan Yankovskiy
as Anatoliy Karpov
Konstantin Khabenskiy
as Viktor Korchnoy
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
as Gradov
Fyodor Dobronravov
as Evgeniy Karpov
Viktor Sukhorukov
as Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya
as Veronika
Aleksandr Filippenko
as Leonid Brezhnev
David Brodskiy
as Boris Zelenin
Viktor Dobronravov
as Sergey Maksimov
Mikhail Troynik
as Yuriy Balashov
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