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The Coldest Game (Polish: Ukryta gra) is a 2019 English-language Polish spy film.It is directed by Łukasz Kośmicki and stars Bill Pullman as Joshua Mansky, an American alcoholic former chess champion who becomes involved in a Cold War confrontation between nuclear superpowers.
Films about chess, a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess).
The game of chess serves as the backdrop to explore the complex personal and political issues that the two players face. Akiva is a Jewish chess player from the Soviet Union who is haunted by his past experiences during the Holocaust. He is pitted against Pavius, a young and ambitious player from Hungary who is supported by his government.
[3] [4] Zilber, Latvian Chess Champion in 1958, defeated the teenage Mikhail Tal in 1952, [5] and during most of the 1980s was homeless and regarded as one of the top players in Washington Square Park. Waitzkin's main chess foil character in the film, Jonathan Poe (played by Michael Nirenberg), is based on chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer. When Sarwer ...
Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion.It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Brainwashed (original title Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a 1960 German drama film directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Curt Jürgens, Claire Bloom and Hansjörg Felmy. [1] It is based on Austrian author Stefan Zweig's novella The Royal Game.
In 1972 David and Peter face each other in a chess match. David, the loser, stabs the winner Peter with a fountain pen. The loser's savage attack on his childhood opponent after his public humiliation and defeat leads to the dissolution of his parents' marriage. His father leaves forever, and the boy finds his mother dying from suicide from a ...
The Luzhin Defence is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring John Turturro and Emily Watson.The film centres on a mentally tormented chess grandmaster and the young woman he meets while competing at a world-class tournament in Italy.