World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Crew: Richard Dembo (Director), Arthur Cohn (Producer), Martine Marignac (Producer), Gabriel Yared (Original Music Composer), Agnès Guillemot (Editor), Ivan Maussion (Production Design)
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland
Language: Français
Studio: Ministère de la culture, Michael Arthur Films, La Cécilia
Runtime: 110 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 15, 1984
IMDb: 5.2
Keywords:chess
