
Plot
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?
Trailer
Cast

Boris Gelfand
Self

Viswanathan Anand
Self

Ilya Smirin
Self

Albert Kapengut
Self

Maxim Rodhstein
Self

Pavel Eljanov
Self

Evgeny Tomashevsky
Self

Vladimir Kramnik
Self

Abram Izakovitsh
Self (archival footage)

Nela Gelfand
Self

Eduard Zelkind
Self

Tamara Golovei
Self

Garry Kasparov
Self

Andrei Filatov
Self

Manja Gelfand
Self