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The World Champion

The World Champion2021

★6.0145 minDrama

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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Konstantin Khabenskiy Ivan Yankovsky Vladimir Vdovichenkov

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Konstantin Khabenskiy
as Korchnoi
Ivan Yankovsky
as Karpov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
as Gradov
Victor Dobronravov
as Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
as Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya
as Veronika
Anatoly Kot
as Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik
as Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko
as Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova
as Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov
as Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller
as Sevastyanov
Zurab Miminoshvili
as Guladze
David Brodsky
as Boris Zelenin
Dmitriy Iosifov
as Mikhail Tal
Arseny Topolaga
as Pavel
Denis Kotov
as Reporter
Anton Lunin
as Wedding photographer
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Irina Zamula
as French reporter
Sergey Taktarov
V
Vartan Torosyan
as Announcer's helper
Alyona Kim
as Marisol
Leon Avtaev
as Chess player
Fyodor Dobronravov
as Karpov's father
Vladimir Zaytsev
as Aranovich
Igor Khripunov
as Philippov
Mark Noble
as Schmid
Josefin Asplund
as Paola
Peter Seaton-Clark
as Gofdrey
Junsuke Kinoshita
as Kampomanes
Vladimir Khalturin
as Spasskiy
Pekka Strang
as Fischer
Daniyar Alshinov
as Captain Romeo
A
Armen Ananikyan
as Petrosyan
Vladimir Andreyev
as Luzhniki announcer
Cécile Pleuge
as Press room journalist
Sergey Genkin
as Roommate
P
Pyotr Vins
as Murei Yakov
A
Alexandr Gorelov
as Polugaevskiy
Igor Zakharov
as Grigoriy Naumovich
Anastasiya Imamova
as Accountant
Mikhail Kalinichev
as Zlatoust audience
Grant Kagramanyan
as Chess player
Nikolay Drozdovsky
as Korchnoi's parapsychologist
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Ivan Perković
as Fragella
Vladimir Tashlykov
as Professor Melnikov
Evgeny Chupin
as Main grandmaster
Sergey Shokolov
as Brezhnev's referent
Radoje Čupić
as Kazhic
G
Grant Amiryan
as Bit part
A
Aleksey Sitkin

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