Album 61
June 14, 2013
1h 10m
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?
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Cast
Boris Gelfand
SelfViswanathan Anand
SelfIlya Smirin
SelfAlbert Kapengut
SelfMaxim Rodhstein
SelfPavel Eljanov
SelfEvgeny Tomashevsky
SelfVladimir Kramnik
SelfAbram Izakovitsh
Self (archival footage)Nela Gelfand
SelfEduard Zelkind
SelfTamara Golovei
Self
Garry Kasparov
Self
Andrei Filatov
SelfManja Gelfand
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