The World Champion
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.
Drama
6.1
36 reviewsRuntime: 145 min.
Budget: $7,535,000
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 2021-12-30
Director(s): Alexey Sidorov
Production: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia
Languages: Russian
IMDB: tt13930782
