The World Champion 2021

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Drama

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.

Release Date 2021-12-30
Runtime 2h 25m
Directors Mikhail Milashin, Alexey Sidorov, Margarita Lenskikh, Ekaterina Molochnaya, Alexey Samodelko, Alexandr Mikeladze, Filipp Yuzhanin
Producers Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereshchagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Rafael Minasbekyan, Alexey Sidorov, Sergey Gurevich, Michael Kitaev
Writer Alexey Sidorov