The World Champion
- Released on
- Runtime
- 145 mins
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.
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
- 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
Director
- Alexey Sidorov
Producers
- Leonid Vereshchagin
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Rafael Minasbekyan
- Alexey Sidorov
- Sergei Gurevich
- Anton Zlatopolskiy
Screenwriter
- Alexey Sidorov
