The World Champion

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

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