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The World Champion (2021)

The World Champion (2021)

Drama
Release Date: 2021, December 30
Directors: Alexey Sidorov
Countries: Russia
Production: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia
Cast: Victor Dobronravov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Dmitriy Miller, Diana Pozharskaya, Anton Bogdanov, Peter Seaton-Clark, Josefin Asplund, Mikhail Troynik, Pekka Strang, Igor Khripunov, Mark Noble

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

chess chess champion