THE WORLD CHAMPION

DRAMA, BIOPIC
RUSSIA · 2021
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN
COLOR · 145 MIN. 

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 1978 match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a former mentor an defector to the West. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.