The World Champion

• Movies
• 2021-12-30
• RU
• Released
• 2h 25m
• RU
• Drama
• Budget: $7,535,000.00

• 6.3
• 30

Production

Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia-1

Storyline

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.