2021
6.5 (29 votes)
2h 25m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Studio Trite
Central Partnership
KIT Film Studio
Cinema Foundation of Russia
Russia-1
Central Partnership
KIT Film Studio
Cinema Foundation of Russia
Russia-1
The World Champion (Чемпион мира)
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.
Key Crew
Screenplay: Alexey Sidorov
Director: Alexey Sidorov
Director of Photography: Mikhail Milashin
Producer: Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereshchagin, Rafael Minasbekyan, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Alexey Sidorov, Sergei Gurevich
Top Cast
Konstantin Khabenskiy
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
