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.
Unfortunately the movie The World Champion is not yet available on HBO Max.
Sound | Artyom Vasilev | Original Music Composer |
Production | Margarita Lenskikh | Casting Director |
Directing | Ekaterina Molochnaya | Assistant Director |
Editing | Dmitry Korabelnikov | Editor |
Sound | Alexey Samodelko | Sound Director |
Camera | Alexandr Mikeladze | Additional Director of Photography |
Camera | Filipp Yuzhanin | Additional Director of Photography |
Camera | Aleksandr Vdovenko | Steadicam Operator |
Crew | Aleksandr Samokhvalov | Stunt Coordinator |
Visual Effects | Pavel Bezborodov | VFX Supervisor |
Visual Effects | Alexandr Gorokhov | VFX Supervisor |
Writing | Alexey Sidorov | Screenplay |
Camera | Mikhail Milashin | Director of Photography |
Directing | Alexey Sidorov | Director |
Production | Nikita Mikhalkov | Producer |
Production | Leonid Vereshchagin | Producer |
Art | Sergey Agin | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Ulyana Polyanskaya | Costume Designer |
Production | Anton Zlatopolskiy | Producer |
Production | Rafael Minasbekyan | Producer |
Production | Alexey Sidorov | Producer |
Production | Sergei Gurevich | Producer |
Production | Michael Kitaev | Executive Producer |