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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.
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.
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.
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The Luzhin Defense. Vladimir Nabokov. 3.95. 13,956 ratings888 reviews. A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life. As he rises to the heights of grandmaster, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality as he moves inexorably towards madness.
May 4, 2001 · "The Luzhin Defence," based on a novella by Vladimir Nabokov, is about love, genius and madness, but it is also about life among the wealthy emigres of Europe in the years after World War I. They dress and move with elegance, their wealth preserving around them an illusion of the social order that was destroyed by the guns of August.
Oct 8, 2021 · 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...
Oct 3, 2014 · Subscribe to Exclusive Media for all the latest trailers and movie clips http://bit.ly/1m2iRIlSet in the late 1920s, A shambling unworldly chess Grand Master...
May 20, 2015 · Set in the late 1920s, THE LUZHIN DEFENCE tells the story of a shambling, unworldly chess Grandmaster who arrives in the Italian Lakes to play the match of his life and unexpectedly finds true love.
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PG-13. Romance · Drama. This video is currently unavailable. to watch in your location. Details. Cast and Crew. [HBO] Upconverted to HD. An emotionally fragile chess master falls in love with an aristocrat in this haunting film.
