
The World Champion
- Release Date
- 2021-12-30
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- N/A
- Links
- IMDb
Overview
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.

