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The World Champion

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Drama · 2021FlikFlixPick

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.

Starring
Konstantin Khabenskiy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ivan Yankovsky, Leonid Vereshchagin, Alexander Petrov, Alexey Sidorov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Egor Koreshkov, Alexey Sidorov, Victor Dobronravov, Vladimir Mashkov, Alexey Sidorov, Viktor Sukhorukov

Director
Alexey Sidorov

Producer
Rafael Minasbekyan

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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.

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Released
2021
Runtime
2 hr 25 min