Screening of the film «World Champion» | September 27, 2022

20/09/2022 17:40

On September 27, 2022, under the auspices of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, within the “Art Unites” project, the film “World Champion” will be screened at the UN Headquarters in Geneva. The Assembly will be represented by Elmira Shcherbakova, Deputy Head of the General Secretariat of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly.

Some victories in sports are more than just sports. They become part of history.

This film is about the most dramatic and legendary duel in the history of chess - the match for the title of world champion between the current world champion Anatoly Karpov and the contender for this title, grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, who emigrated from the USSR a few years before this match.

The clash of outstanding chess players is above all a duel of characters. Against a young genius who has barely taken off on the chess Olympus, a child prodigy and an idealist, a seasoned fighter, obsessed and unpredictable, ready to fight with any weapon: chess for him is war. A virtuoso game, maximum psychological tension and a personal human confrontation between the two strongest chess players on the planet. The price of victory in this match is immeasurably high.