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 and cast
- Konstantin Khabensky as Korchnoi
- Ivan Yankovsky as Karpov
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Gradov
- Victor Dobronravov as Sergey Maksimov
- Viktor Sukhorukov as Viktor Baturinskiy
- Diana Pozharskaya as Veronika
- Anatoly Kot as Igor Zaytsev
- Mikhail Troynik as Yuriy Balashov
- Aleksandr Filippenko as Leonid Brezhnev
- Larisa Shakhvorostova as Karpov's mother
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