The World Chess Championship is a juicy battle, rife with passion, power and money. Boris Gelfand has spent his entire life getting ready for this moment; he was raised to become a champion since the age of six. His father devoted all his life to cultivating Boris' talent while obsessively documenting the process. The photo albums tell the father's story as much as that of the son, revealing a simple truth about a man living his own dreams through his son under the Soviet regime. Can any child, given fine Soviet education, become a genius? And is becoming a genius worth the price?
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- Released
- Production
- The New Fund for Cinema and TV, MYmovies, yes
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Boris Gelfand as Self
Viswanathan Anand as Self
Ilya Smirin as Self
Albert Kapengut as Self
Maxim Rodhstein as Self
Pavel Eljanov as Self
Evgeny Tomashevsky as Self
Vladimir Kramnik as Self
Top Crew
Halil Efrat · Director, Writer
Yaniv Fridel · Composer
Lemez Lovas · Composer
Aviram Buhris · Producer
Lee Yardeni · Producer
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