2021
The World Champion

Description

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.

type of work

Movies

Team

  • Aleksey Sidorov— Director

  • Leonid Vereshchagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Rafael Minasbekyan, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksey Sidorov— Producers

  • Mikhail Milashin RGC— Director of Photography

  • Pavel Bezborodov, Aleksandr Gorokhov— Visual Effects Supervisors

  • Aleksandr Gorokhov, Anna Oyner— Visual Effects Producers

Production company

  • Trite Studio, Russia-1, Central Partnership, KIT, with the participation of the Cinema Foundation

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