The World Champion

(2021)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 819 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2021

Runtime: 145 min

Country: Russia

Director: Алексей Сидоров

Cast: Константин Хабенский, Иван Янковский, Владимир Вдовиченков, Виктор Добронравов, Виктор Сухоруков

Plot

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.