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.
Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.
An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/14/1963). People's Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1978). People's Artist of the RSFSR (07.27.1972). People's Artist of the USSR (1985). In 1952 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts. A.V. Lunacharskiy (teachers - A.A. Goncharov, A.M. Lobanov). Since 1952, in the Theater. Ermolova (in 1970-1985 - the main director, in 1990-2012 - artistic director). In 1985-1988 - the main director of the Maly Theater. In the cinema since 1954 (film "True Friends"). Member of the CPSU since 1962. He teaches at GITIS, professor (since 1978), head of the department of acting. His students were actors: Kristina Orbakaite, Victor Evgrafov, Nikolai Tokarev, Elena Yakovleva, Viktor Rakov, Boris Mironov, Boris Dergun, Sergey Biryulin, Arseny Kovalskiy, Evgeniy Kamenkovich. Full member of the International Theater Academy (2000). Academician of the Academy of Humanities (1995). Wife - People's Artist of Russia Natalya Seleznyova.
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