The World Champion

Movie

The World Champion

Drama

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.

Date: 12/30/2021

Rating: 6.5

Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Yankovsky, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Victor Dobronravov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Diana Pozharskaya, Anatoly Kot, Mikhail Troynik, Aleksandr Filippenko, Larisa Shakhvorostova, Anton Bogdanov, Dmitriy Miller, Zurab Miminoshvili, David Brodsky, Dmitri Iosifov, Arseny Topolaga, Denis Kotov, Anton Lunin, Irina Zamula, Sergey Taktarov, Vartan Torosyan, Alena Kim, Leon Avtaev, Fyodor Dobronravov, Vladimir Zaytsev, Igor Khripunov, Mark Noble, Josefin Asplund, Peter Seaton-Clark, Junsuke Kinoshita, Vladimir Khalturin, Pekka Strang, Daniyar Alshinov, Armen Ananikyan, Vladimir Andreyev, Sesil Plezhe, Sergey Genkin, Pyotr Vins, Alexandr Gorelov, Igor Zakharov, Anastasiya Imamova, Mikhail Kalinichev, Grant Kagramanyan, Nikolay Drozdovsky, Ivan Perković, Vladimir Tashlykov, Evgeny Chupin, Sergey Shokolov, Radoje Čupić, Grant Amiryan

Konstantin Khabenskiy