The World Champion (2021)
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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Cast
- Konstantin Khabensky — Korchnoi
- Ivan Yankovsky — Karpov
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov — Gradov
- Victor Dobronravov — Sergey Maksimov
- Viktor Sukhorukov — Viktor Baturinskiy
- Diana Pozharskaya — Veronika
- Anatoly Kot — Igor Zaytsev
- Mikhail Troynik — Yuriy Balashov
- Aleksandr Filippenko — Leonid Brezhnev
- Larisa Shakhvorostova — Karpov's mother
- Anton Bogdanov — Vasiliy Brykin
- Dmitriy Miller — Sevastyanov
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