Top billed cast

1. 

   Bill Pullman

   Joshua Mansky

2. 

   Lotte Verbeek

   Agent Stone

3. 

   James Bloor

   Agent White

4. 

   Robert Więckiewicz

   Alfred

5. 

   Aleksey Serebryakov

   Gienadij Krutow

6. 

   Corey Johnson

   Donald Novak

7. 

   Nicholas Farrell

   G. Moran

8. 

   Evgeniy Sidikhin

   Jurij Gawryłow

9. 

   Cezary Kosiński

   'John Gift'

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-03-28

What does make this espionage thriller remarkable is it's plausibility... Now, in 2020, we would never give a second thought to an international chess competition but like many others, I recall the fuss made when the world championships really did become an intellectual version of the cold war between the USSR and the USA. Go back to the Cuban missile crisis, when the world was on the brink of an holocaust; and "Josh Mansky" (Bill Pullman) is a neglected US chess champion called upon to take on a Russian Grand Master "Gavrylov" in Warsaw. It's clear from the outset that this is far more than j...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Polish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• chess
• cold war
• affectation
• macabre
• cuban missile crisis
• 1960s
• warsaw, poland
• math genius
• ironic
• malicious
• vindictive
• clinical
• dramatic
• critical
• egotistical
• antagonistic
• apologetic
• appreciative
• audacious
• awestruck
• cliché
• conceited
• cruel
• sport