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The World Champion
The World Champion

The World Champion

6.5/10

2hr 25mins

Country:RU

2021

Drama
Spoken Languages: Pусский

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.

Budget

$7,535,000.00

Production companies

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

Genre

Drama

Runtime

2hr 25mins

Rating

6.5/10

Release Date

2021-12-30