The World Champion
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.
- Year: 2021
- Country: Russia
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia-1
- Keyword: chess, chess champion
- Director: Alexey Sidorov
- Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Yankovsky, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Victor Dobronravov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Diana Pozharskaya