
The World Champion
6.1Dec 30 2021
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2h 25m
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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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Konstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky
Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gradov




