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.
Elenco: Konstantin Khabenskiy , Ivan Yankovsky , Vladimir Vdovichenkov , Victor Dobronravov , Viktor Sukhorukov , Diana Pozharskaya , Anatoly Kot , Mikhail Troynik , Aleksandr Filippenko , Larisa Shakhvorostova , Anton Bogdanov , Dmitriy Miller , Zurab Miminoshvili , David Brodsky , Dmitri Iosifov , Arseny Topolaga , Denis Kotov , Anton Lunin , Irina Zamula , Sergey Taktarov , Vartan Torosyan , Alena Kim , Leon Avtaev , Fyodor Dobronravov , Vladimir Zaytsev , Igor Khripunov , Mark Noble , Josefin Asplund , Peter Seaton-Clark , Junsuke Kinoshita , Vladimir Khalturin , Pekka Strang , Daniyar Alshinov , Armen Ananikyan , Vladimir Andreyev , Sesil Plezhe , Sergey Genkin , Pyotr Vins , Alexandr Gorelov , Igor Zakharov , Anastasiya Imamova , Mikhail Kalinichev , Grant Kagramanyan , Nikolay Drozdovsky , Ivan Perković , Vladimir Tashlykov , Evgeny Chupin , Sergey Shokolov , Radoje Čupić .