The Old Tricks #6: A superb combination from a forbidden movie

The fictitious/constructed decisive chess game for the Soviet 1972 movie "Grossmeyster" (imdb.com/title/tt0382724) was based on the analysis of this, real, encounter. In the movie, the main character, Grandmaster Sergei Khlebnikov (actor Andrey Myagkov), despite strong suggestions of his assistant and friend (Viktor Korchnoi) to avoid risks with Black, makes numerous sacrifices and wins his game in the Candidates beautifully in time trouble... Many famous players (including Tal, Petrosian, Smyslov) were pictured in the movie but after Korchnoi's decision not to return to the Soviet Union in 1976, "Grossmeyster" was, basically, forbidden.

Andrey Myagkov as Grandmaster Khlebnikov