John Turturro
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The Luzhin Defence is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring John Turturro and Emily Watson. The film centres on a mentally tormented chess grandmaster and the young woman he meets while competing at a world-class tournament in Italy.
Sep 8, 2000 · The Luzhin Defence: Directed by Marleen Gorris. With John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson. Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.
- (4.8K)
- Drama, Romance
- Marleen Gorris
- 2000-09-08
Apr 20, 2001 · Discovering his prodigious talent in boyhood overshadowed by his parents' failing marriage, Luzhin's lyrical passion for chess has become his refuge and rendered the real world a phantom.
- (72)
- Marleen Gorris
- PG-13
- John Turturro
The Defense (also known as The Luzhin Defense; Russian: Защита Лужина, Zashchita Luzhina) is the third novel written by Vladimir Nabokov after he had immigrated to Berlin. It was first published in Russian 1930 and later in English in 1964.
- Vladimir Nabokov
- 1930
May 4, 2001 · The film follows a match between Luzhin and a grandmaster whose patience for chess is equaled only by his patience for Luzhin. But there is an evil presence on the premises: Valentinov ( Stuart Wilson ), who was the boy's chess teacher.
The Luzhin Defence. Set in 1929, this adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of love and obsession stars John Turturro as Alexander Luzhin, a shambling and eccentric chess Grandmaster who arrives in a North Italian lakeside resort to play the match of his career.
Set in the late 1920s, The Luzhin Defence tells the story of a shambling, unworldly chess Grand Master who arrives in the Italian Lakes to play the match of his life...
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