Konstantin Khabenskiy
Korchnoi
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 |
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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 |