

14/06/2013
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?

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)

Nela Gelfand
as Self

Eduard Zelkind
as Self

Tamara Golovei
as Self

Garry Kasparov
as Self

Andrei Filatov
as Self

Manja Gelfand
as Self
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