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.

• Artyom VasilevOriginal Music Composer
• Alexey SidorovScreenplay
• Alexey SidorovDirector

• 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