The World Champion
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Watch the world champion soap2day. 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.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Russia
- Director: Alexey Sidorov
- Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ivan Yankovsky, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Victor Dobronravov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Diana Pozharskaya, Anatoly Kot, Mikhail Troynik, Aleksandr Filippenko, Larisa Shakhvorostova, Anton Bogdanov, Dmitriy Miller, Zurab Miminoshvili, David Brodsky, Dmitri Iosifov, Arseny Topolaga, Denis Kotov, Anton Lunin, Irina Zamula, Sergey Taktarov, Vartan Torosyan,