The World Champion(2021)
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.
Movie: The World Champion
Top 10 Billed Cast
Korchnoi
Karpov
Gradov
Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Veronika
Igor Zaytsev
Yuriy Balashov
Leonid Brezhnev
Karpov's mother
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