The World Champion (2021)
Chempion mira
145 min
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.
- Release date
- December 30, 2021
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Budget
- $7,535,000
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Cast
- Konstantin Khabenskiy as Viktor Korchnoy
- Ivan Yankovskiy as Anatoliy Karpov
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Gradov
- Viktor Dobronravov as Sergey Maksimov
- Viktor Sukhorukov as Viktor Baturinskiy
- Diana Pozharskaya as Veronika
- Anatoliy Kot as Igor Zaytsev
- Mikhail Troynik as Yuriy Balashov
- Aleksandr Filippenko as Leonid Brezhnev
- Larisa Shakhvorostova as Karpov's mother
- Anton Bogdanov as Vasiliy Brykin
- Dmitriy Miller as Sevastyanov
- Zurab Miminoshvili as Guladze
- Dmitriy Iosifov as Mikhail Tal
- Alyona Kim as Marisol
- Fyodor Dobronravov as Evgeniy Karpov
- Vladimir Zaytsev as Aranovich
- Igor Khripunov as Philippov
- Mark Noble as Schmid
- Josefin Asplund as Paola
- Peter Seaton-Clark as Gofdrey
- Junsuke Kinoshita as Kampomanes
- David Brodskiy as Boris Zelenin
Crew
- Aleksey Sidorov · Director
- Aleksey Sidorov · Writer
- Sergei Gurevich · Producer
- Nikita Mikhalkov · Producer
- Rafael Minasbekyan · Producer
- Aleksey Sidorov · Producer
- Artyom Vasilev · Composer
- Mikhail Milashin · Cinematographer
- Dimitri Komm · Editor
- Margarita Lenskikh · Casting director
- Sergey Agin · Production designer