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Champion Of The World (2021 Film)
''Champion of the World'' (russian: Чемпион мира, Chempion mira) is a 2021 Russian sports drama film written and directed by Aleksey Sidorov. The film tells the story of the rivalry between the Soviet Union's venerable sports artist, chess player Anatoly Karpov, who is competing against Viktor Korchnoi for the title of World Chess Championship.Исторические ляпы фильма «Чемпион мира». Что не так в новом российском кино о шахматах // championat.com, December 31, 2021 It was theatrically rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksey Sidorov
Aleksey Leonidovich Sidorov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Леони́дович Си́доров; born August 22, 1968) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. Biography Aleksey was born in Severodvinsk. He studied at the Faculty of Philology of Petrozavodsk University, after which he moved to Moscow and began attending courses for scriptwriters and directors. He made his film debut in 2002. Filmography * ''Brigada'' (2002) * ''Shadowboxing'' (2005) * '' Shadowboxing 2: Revenge'' (2007) * '' Shadowboxing 3: Last Round'' (2011) * '' 22 Minutes (2014) * ''T-34 The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in 1940. When introduced its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was less powerful than its contemporaries while its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against anti-tank weapons. The C ...'' (2019) * '' Champion of the World'' (2021) References External links * {{IMDb name, 1284414 Aleksey Sidorovon kino-teatr.ru Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baguio
Baguio ( , ), officially the City of Baguio ( ilo, Siudad ti Baguio; fil, Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", owing to its cool climate since the city is located approximately above mean sea level, often cited as in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion, which also makes it conducive for the growth of mossy plants, orchids and pine trees, to which it attributes its other moniker as the "City of Pines". Baguio was established as a hill station by the United States in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as ''Kafagway''. It was the United States' only hill station in Asia. Baguio is classified as a Highly-Urbanized City (HUC). It is geographically located within Benguet, serving as the provincial capital from 1901 to 1916, but has since been administered independently from the province following its conversion into a chartered cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as actors, director, cinematographer or sound engineer and their respective assistants ( assistant director, camera assistant, boom operator), the unit production manager plays a decisive role in principal photography. They are responsible for the daily implementation of the shoot, managing the daily call sheet, the location barriers, transportation, and catering. In addition, there are numerous roles that serve the organization and the orderly sequence of the production, such as grips or gaffers. Other roles are related with the preparation of a daily production report, which shows the progress of the production compared to the schedule and contains further reports. This includes the storyboard with instructions for the copier and the editing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefin Asplund
Maria Josefin Asplund (born 15 October 1991) is a Swedish actress. She is known to international audiences for her roles as Astrid on the History Channel series ''Vikings'' and Pernilla Blomkvist in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2011). She starred in the 2015 film adaptation of the Swedish novel '' The Circle''. Biography Asplund grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, with her Polish mother, Swedish father and older sister. Asplund's parents divorced when she was 7 years old. Asplund began acting at the local theater close to her home at the age of 6, where she played various characters in different musicals until her teenage years. During her childhood the stage was one of few places that truly felt like home, she said in an interview with Swedish Radio. Later, Asplund studied acting at Södra Latins Gymnasium (Southern Latin secondary school), graduating in 2010. Shortly after, she was cast in David Fincher's adaptation of ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, chess's international governing body, over the match conditions. Consequently, the Soviet challenger Anatoly Karpov was named World Champion by default. Fischer subseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pekka Strang
Pekka Kristian Strang (born 23 July 1977) is a Finland-Swedish actor and the artistic director of Lilla Teatern in Helsinki, 2005–2014. He grew up in Vaasa on the Finnish west coast. In 1997 he was admitted to the Theatre Academy of Finland and graduated in 2001. The same year he starred in the movie ''Drakarna över Helsingfors'' (English title: ''Kites over Helsinki'') and in 2004 he had a role in ''Producing Adults''. Strang plays the titular character in the 2017 Dome Karukoski film ''Tom of Finland''. Strang is the Swedish actor of The Hemulen in the Finnish-British animated television family drama ''Moominvalley Moominvalley ( sv, Mumindalen, fi, Muumilaakso) is a fictional place, where the Moomins live in the tales by Finnish author Tove Jansson. Especially in the early books Moominvalley is depicted as a beautiful place with green slopes, rivers, f ...'' (2019–). In 2021 Strang played main role in video to Beast in Black song "Moonlight Rendezvous". Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1982 and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet between 1960 and 1964 and again between 1977 and 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary remains debated by historians; while his rule was characterised by political stability and significant foreign policy successes, it was also marked by corruption, inefficiency, Era of Stagnation, economic stagnation, and rapidly growing technological gaps with the West. Brezhnev was born to a working-class family in Kamianske, Kamenskoye (now Kamianske, Ukraine) within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire. After the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77489?rskey=dCKrg4&result=1 (accessed May 11, 2021) The term ''general'' is used in two ways: as the generic title for all grades of general officer and as a specific rank. It originates in the 16th century, as a shortening of ''captain general'', which rank was taken from Middle French ''capitaine général''. The adjective ''general'' had been affixed to officer designations since the late medieval period to indicate relative superiority or an extended jurisdiction. Today, the title of ''general'' is known in some countries as a four-star rank. However, different countries use different systems of stars or other insignia for senior ranks. It has a NATO rank sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Filippenko
Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko (russian: links=no, Александр Георгиевич Филиппенко; born September 2, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of Russia (2000). Biography He was born in Moscow. His parents moved to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan where he graduated from high school. Later on he entered MIPT where he took active part in MFTI KVN team. The first time he appeared on stage at the MSU Variety Studio ''Our Home'' in a stage adaptation of Kersanov's ''Story of Tsar Emelian''. Since 1969 Filippenko was a key member of ''Taganka Theater''. In 1970 he entered Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated with honors. In 1975 he started working at ''Vakhtangov Theater'' where he took part in famous plays "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" (Брестский Мир) "Richard III" and many others. There he met, worked with and became good friends with director Robert Sturua. Filippenko left Vakhtangov Theater in 1994 and started his own theatrical pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR Chess Federation
The USSR Chess Federation (russian: Шахматная федерация СССР, ) was the national organization for chess in the USSR. It was founded in 1924 and its headquarters were in Moscow. It was affiliated with the World Chess Federation. The USSR Chess Federation organized a USSR Chess Championship and published a newspaper called '' Шахматы в СССР'' (Chess in the USSR). Administration Board The board consisted of a chairman, a deputy chairman, a secretary, and a treasurer. Chairmen * Nikolai Krylenko (1924–1938) * Mikhail Botvinnik (1938–1939) * Vladimir Herman (1939–1941 and 1945–1947) * Boris Weinstein (1942–1945) * Vladislav Vinogradov (1947–1949, 1952–1954 and 1961–1962) * M. Kharlamov (1949–1952) * Vladimir Alatortsev (1954–1961) * Boris Rodionov (1962–1968) * Alexey Serov (1968–1969) * Dmitry Postnikov (1969–1972) * Yuri Averbakh (1972–1977) * Vitaly Sevastyanov (1977–1986 and 1988–1989) * Aleksandre Chik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaly Sevastyanov
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Севастья́нов; 8 July 1935 – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet people, Soviet astronaut, cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey Korolev's design bureau, where he worked on the design of the Vostok spacecraft. He also lectured at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Cosmonaut Training Centre, teaching the physics of spaceflight. In 1967 he commenced cosmonaut training himself. Between 15 and 24 September 1972 he Sevastyanov visited Zagreb, Yugoslavia. After two successful missions, including a two-month stay on the Salyut 4 space station, he was pulled from active flight status in 1976. He worked in ground control for the Salyut 6 station before returning to spacecraft design in the 1980s to work on the Shuttle Buran, Buran project. In 1971, he was the backup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Miller
Dmitry Arturovich Miller (russian: Дми́трий Арту́рович Ми́ллер; born 2 April 1972) is a Russian theater actor. Biography Dmitry Miller was born on 2 April 1972 in suburban Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. After school he entered a medical college. One day he went to Moscow and saw an advertisement for the recruitment of students in drama school. He successfully auditioned and was enrolled for the course. Soon he became a student of Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. In 2001, Dmitry Miller graduated from the Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. The actor joined the troupe of musical theater ''On Basman'', where he worked for almost four years. His debut in cinema was the feature film ''The Sovereign's Servant'', where the actor starred as Chevalier D'Breze in a French speaking role. Afterwards he had small roles in various television movies, such as the popular television series '' Turetsky's March''. Then he successfully starre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
