The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 2015
Pawn Sacrifice
Directed by
Edward Zwick
During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
The story
During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Cast
Tobey MaguireBobby Fischer
Peter SarsgaardFather Bill Lombardy
Liev SchreiberBoris Spassky
Michael StuhlbargPaul Marshall
Lily RabeJoan Fischer
Sophie NélisseYoung Joan
Seamus Davey-FitzpatrickTeen Bobby Fischer
Conrad PlaCarmine Nigro
Aiden LovekampYoung Bobby Fischer
Evelyne BrochuDonna
Robin WeigertRegina Fischer
Andreas ApergisUncle Paul
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Katie Bird NolanMaria
Ilia VolokKGB Agent
Peter JanovKGB Agent
Spiro MalandrakisReporter
Arthur HoldenParty Guest #3
Raphael Grosz-HarveyDonald Byrne
John MaclarenTheodore Tremblay
Vitali MakarovYovanovic
Eric Lee HuffmanKGB Bodyguard
Brett WatsonLothar Schmid
Shawn CampbellCyril Pustan
Eugene NomuraJapanese Anchorman
Norman LehnertGerman Reporter
Edward ZinovievGeller
Sam StoneDeli Customer
Jonathan DubskyTremblay's Aide
Mark SlackeIcelandic Journalist
Alexandre GorchkovIivo Nei
Igor OvadisRussian Bookstore Owner
Bobo VianBookstore Owner's Wife
Joe CobdenMotel Clerk
Brent SkagfordBusinessman (Motel)
Richard JutrasReferee - Santa Monica
Yanick BousquetForeign Reporter #1 (French)
Shanmugasunder ChettyForeign Reporter #2 (East Indian)
Mohsen El GharbiForeign Reporter #3 (Dutch)
Andrew PeplowskiABC News Anchor
David Pryde50's Reporter
Roc LaFortuneOfficial (Soviet Accres.)
Vito DeFilippoRussian Opponent (Bulgaria 1967)
Ellen DavidParty Guest #1 (Fischer Apt.)
Rosaruby KaganParty Guest #2 (Fischer Apt.)
Alain GoulemReporter #1 (Vancouver)
Carlo MestroniReporter #2 (Vancouver)
Glen BowserBus Driver
Zach FraserLong Haired Hippy
Alexandra Van LoonJoan's Daughter
Marco VerdoniJoan's Husband
Matt KeyesJFK Airport Journalist
Edward YankiePresident Nixon
Al VandecruysArbiter - Bulgaria
Al DuboisNBC Reporter
Francois CoteMarshall Heavy
François DucharmeBent Larsen
Maurice DemersPresident Brezhnev
Grace AnneBobby Fischer Fan (uncredited)
Nathaly ThibaultPress Conference (uncredited)
Benoit PriestTexan Trucker (uncredited)
Sigurbjörn GuðmundssonIcelandic Policeman (uncredited)
Natalija UgrinaBikini Babe (uncredited)
Lydia ZadelKissing Woman (uncredited)
Dennis Staroselsky(uncredited)
André SogliuzzoHenry Kissinger (voice, uncredited)
Bobby FischerSelf (archive footage)
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