The World Champion (2021) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 30, 2021

Original Title:
Чемпион мира

Alternate Titles:
Champion of the World
Chempion mira
El duelo del siglo

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Central Partnership
Cinema Foundation of Russia
KIT Film Studio
Russia-1
Studio Trite

Production Countries:
Russia

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 6  RU: 6+ 

Runtime: 145

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.

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Additional Director of Photography:
Filipp Yuzhanin
Alexandr Mikeladze

Assistant Director:
Ekaterina Molochnaya

Casting Director:
Margarita Lenskikh

Costume Designer:
Ulyana Polyanskaya

Director:
Alexey Sidorov

Director of Photography:
Mikhail Milashin

Editor:
Dmitry Korabelnikov

Executive Producer:
Michael Kitaev

Original Music Composer:
Artyom Vasilev

Producer:
Leonid Vereshchagin
Nikita Mikhalkov
Rafael Minasbekyan
Alexey Sidorov
Sergey Gurevich
Anton Zlatopolskiy

Production Design:
Sergey Agin

Screenplay:
Alexey Sidorov

Sound Director:
Alexey Samodelko

Steadicam Operator:
Aleksandr Vdovenko

Stunt Coordinator:
Aleksandr Samokhvalov

VFX Supervisor:
Pavel Bezborodov
Alexandr Gorokhov

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