The World Champion (2021)
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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.
At a glance
- Release date
- 2021-12-30
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alexey Sidorov
- Cast
- Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Yankovsky, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Victor Dobronravov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Diana Pozharskaya, Anatoly Kot, Mikhail Troynik
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