The World Champion
6.3/10
Release: 30/12/2021
Duration: 2h 25m
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.
Country: Russia
Language: Russian
Director:Alexey Sidorov
Writers
| Screenplay:Alexey Sidorov
Production
Studio Trite
Central Partnership
KIT Film Studio
Cinema Foundation of Russia
Russia-1
Budget: $7,535,000
