The World Champion

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Konstantin KhabenskiyKorchnoi

Ivan YankovskyKarpov

Vladimir VdovichenkovGradov

Victor DobronravovSergey Maksimov

Viktor SukhorukovViktor Baturinskiy

Diana PozharskayaVeronika

Anatoly KotIgor Zaytsev

Mikhail TroynikYuriy Balashov

Aleksandr FilippenkoLeonid Brezhnev

Larisa ShakhvorostovaKarpov's mother

Anton BogdanovVasiliy Brykin

Dmitriy MillerSevastyanov