Overview
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.
Cast
Akiva Liebskind
Pavius Fromm
Marina Fromm
Henia Liebskind
Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm
Miller, l'équipe de Fromm
Tac-Tac, l'équipe de Liebskind
Foldes
Stepan Ivanovitch Kerossian - l'équipe de Liebskind
Yachvili
Fadenko
Anton Heller