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Sep 25, 2015 · Pawn Sacrifice: Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
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May 5, 2017 · The Chessplayer: Directed by Luis Oliveros. With Marc Clotet, Melina Matthews, Alejo Sauras, Lionel Auguste. Leaping from Spain's civil war to German occupied France, this period drama follows a chess master who is falsely accused of being a spy and sent to an SS prison in Paris.
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- Luis Oliveros
Apr 7, 2006 · April 7, 2006. Satyajit Ray’s gently satiric parable The Chess Players reminds us that, in the days before America’s machinations in Iraq, we had the British East India Company running roughshod in much same way in India. Ray opens his movie with a documentary-style recap of the Company’s mid-19th century wheeling-dealing in Oudh, a ...
Shatranj Ke Khilari (English: The Chess Players) is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand 's short story of the same name. Amjad Khan plays the role of Wajid Ali Shah, King of Awadh, and Richard Attenborough plays the role of General James Outram.
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Nov 9, 2021 · Trailer. Directed by Satyajit Ray. India, 1977. Comedy, Drama, History. 115 min. Urdu. Synopsis. General Outram declares British rule over the kingdom of Oudh in Lucknow and demands that the king, who has shown no interest in the affairs of state, abdicate. Meanwhile, two noblemen meet for a game of chess, neglecting their families and the ...
In the 1930s, a chess champion from Spain moves to Paris with his wife to avoid the violent civil war. Shortly after arriving, he is arrested, accused of being a spy, and sent to a prison run by a ...
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