Grandmaster (1972 film)

Grandmaster (Гроссмейстер) is a 1972 Soviet sports drama film directed by Sergey Mikaelyan.

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.

Cast

 * Andrey Myagkov as Sergey Khlebnikov
 * Viktor Korchnoi as Khlebnikov's coach
 * 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
 * Nikolay Volkov Sr. as old man from chess pavilion
 * Tamara Sovchi 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