On September 21, 2022, the film "The World Champion" was screened at the UN Headquarters in Geneva. The organizers of the show are the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, the Russian United Nations Association and the Peace and Harmony Charitable Foundation.
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva Gennady Gatilov and Head of the MGIMO UNESCO Chair, Vice President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian United Nations Association Alexei Borisov spoke before the film screening.
At the end of the speeches, Elmira Shcherbakova, Deputy Head of the General Secretariat of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, President of the Peace and Harmony Charitable Foundation, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, presented the “Art Unites” prize to Francesco Pisano, Director of the Library of the UN Office in Geneva. The prize will be presented to the Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Tatyana Valovaya.
Recall that the film was screened as part of the “Art Unites” project of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly.
Some victories in sports are more than just sports. They become part of history. This film is about the most dramatic and legendary duel in the history of chess - the match for the title of world champion between the current world champion Anatoly Karpov and the contender for this title, grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, who emigrated from the USSR a few years before this match. The clash of outstanding chess players is above all a duel of characters. Against a young genius who has barely risen to the chess Olympus, a child prodigy and an idealist - a seasoned fighter, obsessed and unpredictable, ready to fight with any weapon: chess for him is war. A virtuoso game, maximum psychological tension and a personal, human confrontation between the two strongest chess players on the planet. The price of victory in this match is immeasurably high.
The film was a huge success in Geneva, becoming an act of real cultural diplomacy. Spectators representing different countries of the world were united by true art, the triumph of the human spirit.