Album 61

Album 61 (2013) is a documentary film directed by Halil Efrat.

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?

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