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The Chess Player

History
Drama
98 mins
6.5
2017

Description

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.

Casts:

Marc Clotet
Melina Matthews
Alejo Sauras
Maarten Dannenberg
Andrés Gertrúdix
Lionel Auguste
Stefan Weinert
Martin Angerbauer

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