The World Champion

The World Champion

2021
2h 25m
6.1

6.1/10

36 votes • View on IMDb
Drama
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.

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Status: Released

Budget: $7,535,000

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
Studio Trite Central Partnership KIT Film Studio Cinema Foundation of Russia
Production Countries
Russia
Spoken Languages
Russian

Keywords

chess chess champion

Quick Facts

Original Title Чемпион мира
Release Date December 30, 2021
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt13930782

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy
Konstantin Khabenskiy

Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky
Ivan Yankovsky

Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Gradov

Victor Dobronravov
Victor Dobronravov

Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Sukhorukov

Viktor Baturinskiy

Diana Pozharskaya
Diana Pozharskaya

Veronika

Anatoly Kot
Anatoly Kot

Igor Zaytsev

Mikhail Troynik
Mikhail Troynik

Yuriy Balashov

Aleksandr Filippenko
Aleksandr Filippenko

Leonid Brezhnev

Larisa Shakhvorostova
Larisa Shakhvorostova

Karpov's mother

Anton Bogdanov
Anton Bogdanov

Vasiliy Brykin

Dmitriy Miller
Dmitriy Miller

Sevastyanov

Key Crew

Alexey Sidorov
Screenplay
Alexey Sidorov
Director
Nikita Mikhalkov
Producer
Leonid Vereshchagin
Producer
Anton Zlatopolskiy
Producer
Rafael Minasbekyan
Producer
Alexey Sidorov
Producer
Sergei Gurevich
Producer