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The Chess Player
Film / 1938

The Chess Player

Directed by Jean Dréville
DramaHistory

★ 5.3/10Audience rating

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

The story

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

Cast

Françoise RosayCatherine II Conrad VeidtLe baron de Kempelen Bernard LancretLe prince Serge Oblonsky Micheline FranceySonia Vorowska Paul CamboLe prince Boleslas Vorowsky Jacques GrétillatPotemkine Jean TémersonStanislas Edmonde GuyWanda Zalewska Delphin Manuel Gary Gaston Modot

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