Dangerous Moves

1080p 110 min 1984 Published on, 1 year ago

5.8

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.

Country

France

Genre

Drama Thriller

Released

15 Apr, 1984

Main Cast

Michel Piccoli , Leslie Caron , Bernhard Wicki , Liv Ullmann , Albert Simono

Supporting Cast

Daniel Olbrychski , Mathieu Schiffman , Wojciech Pszoniak , Jacques Boudet , Michel Aumont

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