
The World Champion
6.1 2021 145mmovie
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.
Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov

Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
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