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The World Champion
★ 6.1· 2021· 145 min· Popularity 16
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.
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Release Date: 12/30/2021
Runtime: 145 minutes
Languages: Russian
Director: Alexey Sidorov
Budget: $7.5M
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Companies: Studio Trite, Central Partnership, KIT Film Studio, Cinema Foundation of Russia
Countries: Russia
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Keywords
chesschess champion
