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The World Champion

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Calorie Rating: 204
Released: 2021-12-30
Running Time: 145 Minutes
Budget: 7535000
Studios: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia-1,


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.

Director / Directors

Ekaterina Molochnaya
Assistant Director


Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy
Character: Korchnoi
Ivan Yankovsky
Character: Karpov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Character: Gradov

Victor Dobronravov
Character: Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Character: Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya
Character: Veronika

Anatoly Kot
Character: Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik
Character: Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko
Character: Leonid Brezhnev

Larisa Shakhvorostova
Character: Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov
Character: Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller
Character: Sevastyanov

Zurab Miminoshvili
Character: Guladze
David Brodsky
Character: Boris Zelenin
Dmitri Iosifov
Character: Mikhail Tal

Arseny Topolaga
Character: Pavel
Denis Kotov
Character: Reporter
Anton Lunin
Character: Wedding photographer

Irina Zamula
Character: French reporter
Vartan Torosyan
Character: Announcer's helper

Alena Kim
Character: Marisol
Leon Avtaev
Character: Chess player
Fyodor Dobronravov
Character: Karpov's father

Vladimir Zaytsev
Character: Aranovich
Igor Khripunov
Character: Philippov
Mark Noble
Character: Schmid

Josefin Asplund
Character: Paola
Peter Seaton-Clark
Character: Gofdrey
Junsuke Kinoshita
Character: Kampomanes

Vladimir Khalturin
Character: Spasskiy
Pekka Strang
Character: Fischer
Daniyar Alshinov
Character: Captain Romeo

Armen Ananikyan
Character: Petrosyan
Vladimir Andreyev
Character: Luzhniki announcer
Sesil Plezhe
Character: Press room journalist

Sergey Genkin
Character: Roommate
Pyotr Vins
Character: Murei Yakov
Alexandr Gorelov
Character: Polugaevskiy

Igor Zakharov
Character: Grigoriy Naumovich
Anastasiya Imamova
Character: Accountant
Mikhail Kalinichev
Character: Zlatoust audience

Grant Kagramanyan
Character: Chess player
Nikolay Drozdovsky
Character: Korchnoi's parapsychologist
Ivan Perković
Character: Fragella

Vladimir Tashlykov
Character: Professor Melnikov
Evgeny Chupin
Character: Main grandmaster
Sergey Shokolov
Character: Brezhnev's referent

Radoje Čupić
Character: Kazhic
Grant Amiryan
Character: Bit part


Production and Crew

Alexey Sidorov
Screenplay
Mikhail Milashin
Director of Photography

Sergey Agin
Production Design
Ulyana Polyanskaya
Costume Designer


Michael Kitaev
Executive Producer
Artyom Vasilev
Original Music Composer

Margarita Lenskikh
Casting Director
Alexey Samodelko
Sound Director

Alexandr Mikeladze
Additional Director of Photography
Filipp Yuzhanin
Additional Director of Photography
Aleksandr Vdovenko
Steadicam Operator

Aleksandr Samokhvalov
Stunt Coordinator
Pavel Bezborodov
VFX Supervisor
Alexandr Gorokhov
VFX Supervisor