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The World Champion
The World Champion

The World Champion

6.1/10
December 30, 2021
145 minutes
Alexey Sidorov
Drama

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.

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Movie Details

Release Date

December 30, 2021

Runtime

145 minutes

Director

Alexey Sidorov

Rating

6.1/10

Production Companies

Studio Trite Central Partnership KIT Film Studio Cinema Foundation of Russia Russia 1

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