The World Champion

2021
The World Champion
6.3| 2h25m| en| Drama
Storyline

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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  • The World Champion Cast
Ivan Yankovsky as Karpov
Victor Dobronravov as Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov as Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya as Veronika
Anatoly Kot as Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik as Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko as Leonid Brezhnev