Grandmaster (1972 film)

Grandmaster
Russian: Гроссмейстер
Directed by	Sergey Mikaelyan
Written by	Leonid Zorin
Starring	Andrey Myagkov Larisa Malevannaya Emmanuil Vitorgan Lyudmila Kasatkina Mikhail Kozakov Yefim Kopelyan
Cinematography
Music by	Veniamin Basner
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1972
Running time	87 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Grandmaster (Russian: Гроссмейстер, romanized: Grossmeyster) is a 1972 Soviet sports drama film directed by Sergey Mikaelyan.^[1][2][3]

Plot[]

The film tells about the emotional chess player Sergey Khlebnikov, who does not play for the sake of victory. And suddenly he becomes the winner of the international match of applicants.^[4]

Cast[]

• Andrey Myagkov as Sergey Khlebnikov
• Viktor Korchnoi as Khlebnikov's coach^[5]
• Larisa Malevannaya as Elena Dontsova, Khlebnikov's wife
• Emmanuil Vitorgan as Orlov
• Lyudmila Kasatkina as Sergey's mother
• Mikhail Kozakov as Vladimir
• Yefim Kopelyan as Pavel Maksimovich
• as old man from chess pavilion
• as Anya
• Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Sergey's father
• Vladimir Tatosov as Sergey Aleksandrovich
• Petr Shelokhonov as Fyodor Matveyevich
• Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Yuri Averbakh, Mark Taimanov, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Mikael Tariverdiev as cameo

References[]

External links[]

• Grandmaster at IMDb

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