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.
Константин Хабенский
as Korchnoi
Иван Янковский
as Karpov
Владимир Вдовиченков
as Gradov
Виктор Добронравов
as Sergey Maksimov
Виктор Сухоруков
as Viktor Baturinskiy
Диана Пожарская
as Veronika
Анатолий Кот
as Igor Zaytsev
Михаил Тройник
as Yuriy Balashov
Александр Филиппенко
as Leonid Brezhnev
Лариса Шахворостова
as Karpov's mother
Антон Богданов
as Vasiliy Brykin
Дмитрий Миллер
as Sevastyanov
