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The Great Chess Movie

Film

The Great Chess Movie

7.0

1h 19m

1982

Synopsis

In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.

Director

Camille Coudari

Gilles Carle

Documentary

board game

Cast & Crew

Pascal Rollin

Pascal Rollin

as Narrator (voice)

Anatoli Karpov

Anatoli Karpov

as Self

Viktor Kortchnoi

as Self

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

as Self

Boris Spassky

as Self

Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

as Self (archive footage)

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