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.
as Korchnoi
as Karpov
as Gradov
as Sergey Maksimov
as Viktor Baturinskiy
as Veronika
as Igor Zaytsev
as Yuriy Balashov
as Leonid Brezhnev
as Karpov's mother
as Vasiliy Brykin
as Sevastyanov
as Guladze
as Boris Zelenin
as Mikhail Tal
as Pavel
as Reporter
as Wedding photographer
as French reporter
as Announcer's helper
as Marisol
as Chess player
as Karpov's father
as Aranovich
as Philippov
as Schmid
as Paola
as Gofdrey
as Kampomanes
as Spasskiy
as Fischer
as Captain Romeo
as Petrosyan
as Luzhniki announcer
as Press room journalist
as Roommate
as Murei Yakov
as Polugaevskiy
as Grigoriy Naumovich
as Accountant
as Zlatoust audience
as Chess player
as Korchnoi's parapsychologist
as Fragella
as Professor Melnikov
as Main grandmaster
as Brezhnev's referent
as Kazhic
as Bit part
