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The World Champion(2021)
Status: Released
Date: 2021-12-30
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29 Votes
Time: 2h 25m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Russian.
Countries:
Russia
Budget: $7,535,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The World Champion
Top 10 Billed Cast
Константин Хабенский
Korchnoi
Иван Янковский
Karpov
Владимир Вдовиченков
Gradov
Виктор Добронравов
Sergey Maksimov
Виктор Сухоруков
Viktor Baturinskiy
Диана Пожарская
Veronika
Анатолий Кот
Igor Zaytsev
Михаил Тройник
Yuriy Balashov
Александр Филиппенко
Leonid Brezhnev
Лариса Шахворостова
Karpov's mother
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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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2021-12-30
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