The World Champion

Name: The World Champion
Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Yankovsky, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Victor Dobronravov, Viktor Sukhorukov

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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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Cast & Crew

Director: Alexey SidorovProducers: Anton Zlatopolskiy, Leonid Vereshchagin, Michael Kitaev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Rafael Minasbekyan, Sergei Gurevich

Konstantin Khabenskiy

as Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky

as Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

as Gradov

Victor Dobronravov

as Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov

as Viktor Baturinskiy

Diana Pozharskaya

as Veronika

Anatoly Kot

as Igor Zaytsev

Mikhail Troynik

as Yuriy Balashov

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