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The World Champion (2021)
Subtitles for: The World Champion (2021)
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.
| Rate | ★ 6.1/10 (36 votes) |
| Genre | Drama |
| Duration | 2h 25m |
| Country | Russia |
| Release | 30 Dec 2021 |
| Language | RU |
| Director | Alexey Sidorov |
| Keywords | chesschess champion |
| IMDb | tt13930782 ↗ |
| Type | Movie Released |
Cast
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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 motherNo subtitles found for this movie.