The World Champion (2021)
6.5
/10 By 28 Votes
Overview : 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 : December 30, 2021
Runtime : 145m
Genre : Drama
Companies : Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russia-1
Countries : Russia
Keywords : chess, chess champion
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