Vartan Torosyan

Two couples meet in the cafe. A delicate and frank topic that has opened up provokes a quarrel “couple for couple” and within each couple at the same time. It all ends with an attempt to save the evening, save friendship, save relationships. How? It looks like the answer was already known at the beginning of the evening.

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.