The Coldest Game

Nov 8, 2019

1h 44m

★ 6.2

Times change. The stakes remain the same

Overview

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Watchout Studio

TVN

Next Film

ITI Neovision

Canal+

Big City Outdoor

The Story Lab

Poręczenia Kredytowe

Kosafilm

Galeria Olśnienia Go

The Coldest Game Trailers

Cast

Joshua Mansky

Bill Pullman

Agent Stone

Lotte Verbeek

Agent White

James Bloor

Alfred

Robert Więckiewicz

Gienadij Krutow

Aleksey Serebryakov

Donald Novak

Corey Johnson

G. Moran

Nicholas Farrell

Jurij Gawryłow

Evgeniy Sidikhin

'John Gift'

Cezary Kosiński

Adiutant Krutowa

Aleksandr Lobanov

Wojciech Mecwaldowski

Bartender Gienia

Magdalena Boczarska

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