
Russia, 2021
The World Champion
- 16. January 2022
- Drama
- Russia, 2021
- 145 min.
- Directed by: Aleksey Sidorov
- Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Yankovskiy, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
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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