The World Champion(2021)

Name: The World Champion
Genre: Drama
Released: 2021-12-30
Rating: 6.1

Чемпион мира

6.1(36)2h 25m2021-12-30

Drama

Overview

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.

Director:: Alexey Sidorov
Writers:: Alexey Sidorov
Producers:: Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereshchagin, Rafael Minasbekyan
Cinematographer:: Mikhail Milashin
Composer:: Artyom Vasilev
Production:: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia
Budget:: $7,535,000
Status:: Released