The World Champion
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.
Genre: Drama
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
Crew: Alexey Sidorov (Screenplay), Mikhail Milashin (Director of Photography), Alexey Sidorov (Director), Nikita Mikhalkov (Producer), Leonid Vereshchagin (Producer)