The Chess Player

May 5, 2017

1h 38m

★ 6.3

Overview

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.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Hernández y Fernández PC

Tornasol Media

Ishtar Films

The Chess Player Trailers

Cast

Diego Padilla

Marc Clotet

Marianne Latour

Melina Matthews

Javier Sánchez

Alejo Sauras

Maarten Dannenberg

Pablo Mérida

Andrés Gertrúdix

Pierre Boileau

Lionel Auguste

Colonel Maier

Stefan Weinert

Soldier Kuhn

Martin Angerbauer

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