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