The World Champion
movie
View on VideBits →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 & crew
Victor Dobronravov · Larisa Shakhvorostova · Diana Pozharskaya · Konstantin Khabenskiy · Vladimir Vdovichenkov · Alexey Sidorov · Viktor Sukhorukov · Aleksandr Filippenko · Ivan Yankovsky · Anatoly Kot · Mikhail Troynik
Studios & networks
Central Partnership · Cinema Foundation of Russia · KIT Film Studio · Studio Trite