16 Sep 2015
Pawn Sacrifice
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Dangerous Moves
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.
Top Billed Cast
Michel Piccoli Akiva Liebskind
Alexandre Arbatt Pavius Fromm
Liv Ullmann Marina Fromm
Leslie Caron Henia Liebskind
Wojciech Pszoniak Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm
Jean-Hugues Anglade Miller, l'équipe de Fromm
Daniel Olbrychski Tac-Tac, l'équipe de Liebskind
Hubert Saint-Macary Foldes
Michel Aumont Stepan Ivanovitch Kerossian - l'équipe de Liebskind
Pierre Michaël Yachvili
Serge Avédikian Fadenko
Pierre Vial Anton Heller
Bernhard Wicki Pühl
Jacques Boudet Stuffli
Benoît Régent Barabal
Sylvie Granotier Dombert
Albert Simono Dalcroze
Marcel Tassimot Protazanov
Olivier Beer Journalist
Jean-Paul Eydoux Carsen
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