Album 61 (2013)

Directed by Halil Efrat1h 10mDocumentary

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?

Year
2013
Country
IL
Language
Russian
Release date
14 June 2013
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Boris Gelfand
Self
V
Viswanathan Anand
Self
I
Ilya Smirin
Self
A
Albert Kapengut
Self
M
Maxim Rodhstein
Self
P
Pavel Eljanov
Self
E
Evgeny Tomashevsky
Self
V
Vladimir Kramnik
Self
A
Abram Izakovitsh
Self (archival footage)
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Nela Gelfand
Self
E
Eduard Zelkind
Self
T
Tamara Golovei
Self
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Self
Andrei Filatov
Andrei Filatov
Self
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Manja Gelfand
Self

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