The World Champion

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.

Cast for The World Champion...

Victor Dobronravov
Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Baturinskiy
Anatoly Kot
Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik
Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov
Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller
Sevastyanov
David Brodsky
Boris Zelenin
Dmitri Iosifov
Mikhail Tal
Denis Kotov
Reporter
Anton Lunin
Wedding photographer
Irina Zamula
French reporter
Vartan Torosyan
Announcer's helper
Alena Kim
Marisol
Leon Avtaev
Chess player
Fyodor Dobronravov
Karpov's father
Daniyar Alshinov
Captain Romeo
Vladimir Andreyev
Luzhniki announcer
Sesil Plezhe
Press room journalist
Pyotr Vins
Murei Yakov
Alexandr Gorelov
Polugaevskiy
Igor Zakharov
Grigoriy Naumovich
Mikhail Kalinichev
Zlatoust audience
Grant Kagramanyan
Chess player
Nikolay Drozdovsky
Korchnoi's parapsychologist
Vladimir Tashlykov
Professor Melnikov
Evgeny Chupin
Main grandmaster
Sergey Shokolov
Brezhnev's referent