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🎬 Title: The World Champion / Чемпион мира
Story: 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.
⭐ Rating: 6.083 (36 votes)
📅 Release date: 2021-12-30
⏱️ Runtime: 2h 25m
🎭 Genres: Drama
🎬 Director: Alexey Sidorov
✍️ Writer: Alexey Sidorov
🌍 Countries: Russia
🏢 Production companies: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia 1
💼 Production:
💰 Budget: $7,535,000
🏷️ Keywords: World, Champion, Chess, Chess Champion
👥 Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy (Korchnoi), Ivan Yankovsky (Karpov), Vladimir Vdovichenkov (Gradov), Victor Dobronravov (Sergey Maksimov), Viktor Sukhorukov (Viktor Baturinskiy), Diana Pozharskaya (Veronika), Anatoly Kot (Igor Zaytsev), Mikhail Troynik (Yuriy Balashov), Aleksandr Filippenko (Leonid Brezhnev), Larisa Shakhvorostova (Karpov's mother)