Released:
2021-12-30

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.

Director:
Alexey Sidorov

Runtime:
2h 25min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Konstantin Khabenskiy
  as
  Korchnoi
• 
  Ivan Yankovsky
  as
  Karpov
• 
  Vladimir Vdovichenkov
  as
  Gradov
• 
  Victor Dobronravov
  as
  Sergey Maksimov
• 
  Viktor Sukhorukov
  as
  Viktor Baturinskiy