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The World Champion

65 %|Dec 30, 2021|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.

Featured Crew

Artyom Vasilev
Original Music Composer
Dmitry Korabelnikov
Editor
Margarita Lenskikh
Casting Director
Aleksandr Vdovenko
Steadicam Operator
Ekaterina Molochnaya
Assistant Director
Pavel Bezborodov
VFX Supervisor
Filipp Yuzhanin
Additional Director of Photography
Aleksandr Samokhvalov
Stunt Coordinator

Cast

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Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
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Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
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Anatoly Kot
Igor Zaytsev
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Mikhail Troynik
Yuriy Balashov
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Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
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Larisa Shakhvorostova
Karpov's mother
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Anton Bogdanov
Vasiliy Brykin
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Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
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David Brodsky
Boris Zelenin
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Dmitri Iosifov
Mikhail Tal
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Denis Kotov
Reporter
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Anton Lunin
Wedding photographer
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Irina Zamula
French reporter
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Vartan Torosyan
Announcer's helper
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Alena Kim
Marisol
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Leon Avtaev
Chess player
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Fyodor Dobronravov
Karpov's father
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Daniyar Alshinov
Captain Romeo
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Vladimir Andreyev
Luzhniki announcer
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Sesil Plezhe
Press room journalist
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Pyotr Vins
Murei Yakov
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Alexandr Gorelov
Polugaevskiy
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Igor Zakharov
Grigoriy Naumovich
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Mikhail Kalinichev
Zlatoust audience
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Grant Kagramanyan
Chess player
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Nikolay Drozdovsky
Korchnoi's parapsychologist
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Vladimir Tashlykov
Professor Melnikov
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Evgeny Chupin
Main grandmaster
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Sergey Shokolov
Brezhnev's referent