Album 61

Overview

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?

Directed by Halil Efrat

Top cast

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Boris Gelfand

Self

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Viswanathan Anand

Self

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Ilya Smirin

Self

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Albert Kapengut

Self

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Maxim Rodhstein

Self

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Pavel Eljanov

Self

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Evgeny Tomashevsky

Self

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Vladimir Kramnik

Self

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Abram Izakovitsh

Self (archival footage)

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Nela Gelfand

Self

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Eduard Zelkind

Self

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Tamara Golovei

Self

Garry Kasparov

Self

Andrei Filatov

Self

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Manja Gelfand

Self

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