The World Champion

Daniyar Alshinov as Captain Romeo Anastasiya Imamova as Accountant Vladimir Tashlykov as Professor Melnikov Ivan Yankovsky as Karpov Anton Lunin as Wedding photographer Igor Zakharov as Grigoriy Naumovich Nikolay Drozdovsky as Korchnoi's parapsychologist Radoje Čupić as Kazhic Mikhail Troynik as Yuriy Balashov Aleksandr Filippenko as Leonid Brezhnev David Brodsky as Boris Zelenin Dmitriy Iosifov as Mikhail Tal Leon Avtaev as Chess player Sergey Genkin as Roommate Sergey Shokolov as Brezhnev's referent Viktor Sukhorukov as Viktor Baturinskiy Dmitriy Miller as Sevastyanov Mark Noble as Schmid Pekka Strang as Fischer Vladimir Andreyev as Luzhniki announcer Cécile Pleuge as Press room journalist Evgeny Chupin as Main grandmaster Konstantin Khabenskiy as Korchnoi Diana Pozharskaya as Veronika Peter Seaton-Clark as Gofdrey Junsuke Kinoshita as Kampomanes Victor Dobronravov as Sergey Maksimov Sergey Taktarov Vladimir Zaytsev as Aranovich Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Gradov Anatoly Kot as Igor Zaytsev Anton Bogdanov as Vasiliy Brykin Denis Kotov as Reporter Igor Khripunov as Philippov Josefin Asplund as Paola Vladimir Khalturin as Spasskiy Zurab Miminoshvili as Guladze Alyona Kim as Marisol Fyodor Dobronravov as Karpov's father Mikhail Kalinichev as Zlatoust audience Grant Kagramanyan as Chess player Larisa Shakhvorostova as Karpov's mother Arseny Topolaga as Pavel

Sergei Gurevich Producer Anton Zlatopolskiy Producer Nikita Mikhalkov Producer Alexey Sidorov Screenplay, Director, Producer Leonid Vereshchagin Producer Dmitry Korabelnikov Editor Alexandr Gorokhov VFX Supervisor Alexandr Mikeladze Additional Director of Photography Rafael Minasbekyan Producer Michael Kitaev Executive Producer Sergey Agin Production Design