Synopsis
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 KhabenskiyKorchnoi
- Ivan YankovskyKarpov
- Vladimir VdovichenkovGradov
- Victor DobronravovSergey Maksimov
- Viktor SukhorukovViktor Baturinskiy
- Diana PozharskayaVeronika
- Anatoly KotIgor Zaytsev
- Mikhail TroynikYuriy Balashov
- Aleksandr FilippenkoLeonid Brezhnev
- Larisa ShakhvorostovaKarpov's mother
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