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  • Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin (2018)
  • 85 min | Documentary
Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin (2018)
85 min | Documentary

Fascinating story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
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Cinematographers
Liam Ayres (cinematography) | Sebastian Cardwell (cinematography)
Editors
Timothy Martens (edited by) (as Tim Martens) | Vincent Vardnoush (colourist)
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Release date
Oct 26, 2018 (United Kingdom)

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33 cast members
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Muhammad Ali
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Viktor Baturinskiy
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Mikhail Botvinnik
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Magnus Carlsen
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Bobby Fischer
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Viktor Korchnoi
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Tara MacGowran
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Ferdinand Marcos
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Tony Miles
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Tigran Petrosian
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Vasiliy Smyslov
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Boris Spassky
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Mikhail Tal
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