Film

Album 61

0.0

1h 10m

2013

Synopsis

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?

Director

Halil Efrat

Trailer

Documentary

chess

Cast & Crew

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

Abram Izakovitsh

as Self (archival footage)

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