Album 61

Halil Efrat
2013-06-14


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70 min

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?

Cast

Name Character Team
Boris Gelfand Self Unowned
Viswanathan Anand Self Unowned
Ilya Smirin Self Unowned
Albert Kapengut Self Unowned
Maxim Rodhstein Self Unowned
Pavel Eljanov Self Unowned
Evgeny Tomashevsky Self Unowned
Vladimir Kramnik Self Unowned
Abram Izakovitsh Self (archival footage) Unowned
Nela Gelfand Self Unowned
Eduard Zelkind Self Unowned
Tamara Golovei Self Unowned
Garry Kasparov Self Unowned
Andrei Filatov Self Unowned
Manja Gelfand Self Unowned