The World Champion

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 30, 2021

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Russia

Production

Cinema Fund,Central Partnership,KIT Film Studio,Studio Trite,Cinema Foundation of Russia

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy,Ivan Yankovsky,Vladimir Vdovichenkov,Victor Dobronravov,Viktor Sukhorukov,Diana Pozharskaya,Anatoly Kot,Mikhail Troynik,Aleksandr Filippenko,Larisa Shakhvorostovaand 41 more

Director

Alexey Sidorov

Writer

Alexey Sidorov

Producer

Leonid Vereshchagin,Nikita Mikhalkov,Rafael Minasbekyan,Alexey Sidorov,Sergei Gurevich,Michael Kitaev,Anton Zlatopolskiy

Cinematography

Mikhail Milashin

Music

Artyom Vasilev

Budget

$7,535,000

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt13930782