The World Champion

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.

Drama

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Ivan Yankovsky

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Victor Dobronravov

(Sergey Maksimov)

Viktor Sukhorukov

(Viktor Baturinskiy)

Diana Pozharskaya

Anatoly Kot

Mikhail Troynik

(Yuriy Balashov)

Aleksandr Filippenko

(Leonid Brezhnev)

Larisa Shakhvorostova

(Karpov's mother)

Anton Bogdanov

(Vasiliy Brykin)

Dmitriy Miller

Zurab Miminoshvili

David Brodsky

(Boris Zelenin)

Dmitri Iosifov

Arseny Topolaga

Denis Kotov

Anton Lunin

(Wedding photographer)

Irina Zamula

(French reporter)

Sergey Taktarov

Vartan Torosyan

(Announcer's helper)

Alena Kim

Leon Avtaev

Fyodor Dobronravov

(Karpov's father)

Vladimir Zaytsev

Igor Khripunov

Mark Noble

Josefin Asplund

Peter Seaton-Clark

Junsuke Kinoshita

Vladimir Khalturin

Pekka Strang

Daniyar Alshinov

(Captain Romeo)

Armen Ananikyan

Vladimir Andreyev

(Luzhniki announcer)

Sesil Plezhe

(Press room journalist)

Sergey Genkin

Pyotr Vins

Alexandr Gorelov

Igor Zakharov

(Grigoriy Naumovich)

Anastasiya Imamova

Mikhail Kalinichev

(Zlatoust audience)

Grant Kagramanyan

Nikolay Drozdovsky

(Korchnoi's parapsychologist)

Ivan Perković

Vladimir Tashlykov

(Professor Melnikov)

Evgeny Chupin

(Main grandmaster)

Sergey Shokolov

(Brezhnev's referent)

Radoje Čupić

Grant Amiryan