The World Champion (2021)
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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Additional Info
| Budget | $7,535,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 3.403 |
Directed By
Alexey Sidorov
Crew
Artyom Vasilev
Alexandr Mikeladze
Ekaterina Molochnaya
Filipp Yuzhanin
Margarita Lenskikh
Dmitry Korabelnikov
Aleksandr Samokhvalov
Alexandr Gorokhov
Aleksandr Vdovenko
Pavel Bezborodov
Alexey Samodelko
Alexey Sidorov
Alexey Sidorov
Mikhail Milashin
Nikita Mikhalkov
Leonid Vereshchagin
Sergey Agin
Rafael Minasbekyan
Anton Zlatopolskiy
Ulyana Polyanskaya
Alexey Sidorov
Michael Kitaev
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
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov
Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
Zurab Miminoshvili
Guladze
David Brodsky
Boris Zelenin
Dmitriy Iosifov
Mikhail Tal
Arseny Topolaga
Pavel
Denis Kotov
Reporter
Anton Lunin
Wedding photographer
Irina Zamula
French reporter
Vartan Torosyan
Announcer's helper
Alyona Kim
Marisol
Leon Avtaev
Chess player
Fyodor Dobronravov
Karpov's father
Vladimir Zaytsev
Aranovich
Igor Khripunov
Philippov
Mark Noble
Schmid
Josefin Asplund
Paola
Peter Seaton-Clark
Gofdrey
Junsuke Kinoshita
Kampomanes
Vladimir Khalturin
Spasskiy
Pekka Strang
Fischer
Daniyar Alshinov
Captain Romeo
Armen Ananikyan
Petrosyan
Vladimir Andreyev
Luzhniki announcer
Sesil Plezhe
Press room journalist
Sergey Genkin
Roommate
Pyotr Vins
Murei Yakov
Alexandr Gorelov
Polugaevskiy
Igor Zakharov
Grigoriy Naumovich
Anastasiya Imamova
Accountant
Mikhail Kalinichev
Zlatoust audience
Grant Kagramanyan
Chess player
Nikolay Drozdovsky
Korchnoi's parapsychologist
Ivan Perković
Fragella
Vladimir Tashlykov
Professor Melnikov
Evgeny Chupin
Main grandmaster
Sergey Shokolov
Brezhnev's referent
Radoje Čupić
Kazhic
Grant Amiryan
Bit part
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