Album 61
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?
Movie Information
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
