Grandmaster

Original title: Гроссмейстер

Duration: 88 min

Release date: 1973-08-13

IMDB

Chess player Sergei Khlobnikov never set winning as his goal in the game. Emotional and averse to pragmatism, he rarely won tournaments. But eventually, his time came.

Drama

Гроссмейстер

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as Sergey Khlebnikov

Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Korchnoi

as Khlebnikov's Coach

Larisa Malevannaya

Larisa Malevannaya

as Elena Dontsova

Emmanuil Vitorgan

Emmanuil Vitorgan

Lyudmila Kasatkina

Lyudmila Kasatkina

Mikhail Kozakov

Mikhail Kozakov

Nikolai Volkov St.

Nikolai Volkov St.

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Vladimir Tatosov

Vladimir Tatosov

Anna Tvelenyova

Anna Tvelenyova

Petr Shelokhonov

Petr Shelokhonov

Aleksandr Kotov

Aleksandr Kotov

as Chess grandmaster

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Sergey Mikaelyan

Sergey Mikaelyan

Venyamin Basner

Venyamin Basner

Original Music Composer

Yevgeni Mezentsev

Yevgeni Mezentsev

Director of Photography

Boris Burmistrov

Boris Burmistrov

Production Design

Assistant Director

Camera Operator

Vsevolod Schwarts

Vsevolod Schwarts

Vera Zelinskaya

Vera Zelinskaya

Vadim Khalaimov

Vadim Khalaimov

First Assistant Director

Second Assistant Director

Third Assistant Director

Assistant Camera

Mikhail Shamkovich

Mikhail Shamkovich

VFX Director of Photography

Script Consultant

Viktor Baturinskiy

Viktor Baturinskiy

Script Consultant

Anatoli Badkhen

Anatoli Badkhen

Grigori Prusovsky

Grigori Prusovsky

Executive Producer

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