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Cast & Crew

Alexey Sidorov
Director
Viktor Sukhorukov
As Viktor Baturinskiy
Fyodor Dobronravov
As Karpov's father
Pekka Strang
As Fischer
Igor Khripunov
As Philippov
Aleksandr Filippenko
As Leonid Brezhnev

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In the high-stakes world of professional chess, a young Soviet champion named Anatoly Karpov must defend his title against a formidable opponent: Viktor Korchnoi, a recent defector from the USSR. As the two players engage in a psychologically charged showdown, the pressure mounts and the stakes become incomprehensibly high. With the weight of their personal lives and national loyalties on the line, the battle between these two chess legends becomes a epic duel that will go down in history.

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