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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Cast
Konstantin Khabenskiy Korchnoi
Ivan Yankovsky Karpov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov Gradov
Victor Dobronravov Sergey Maksimov
Viktor Sukhorukov Viktor Baturinskiy
Diana Pozharskaya Veronika
Anatoly Kot Igor Zaytsev
Mikhail Troynik Yuriy Balashov
Aleksandr Filippenko Leonid Brezhnev
Larisa Shakhvorostova Karpov's mother
Anton Bogdanov Vasiliy Brykin
Dmitriy Miller SevastyanovScreenings in Brussels
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