The World Champion
Drama | 2021-12-30 | Russia
6.5 / 10
$7,535,000
$0
145 min.
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.
Studio Trite
Central Partnership
KIT Film Studio
Cinema Foundation of Russia
Russia-1
