The World Champion

20212h 25min

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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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.

Released
December 30, 2021
Runtime
2h 25min
Director
Alexey Sidorov
Budget
$7,535,000
Genre
Drama
Language
Russian
Production
Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia-1
Cast
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