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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780026490
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780026497
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 31025
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1985
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - You don't have to love chess to like this
I had never heard of this film but took a chance on it due to the steller cast. I wasn't sure I'd be interested in a chess match, but I was quickly engaged in it and my attention didn't wander untill the very interesting and satisfying ending.
The main action is the grand champion chess match held in Geneva in 1983, during the Cold War. The contenders are the reigning grand master, a Soviet citizen, played movingly by Michel Piccoli and his upstart challenger, a defector from the ... Read More
Rating:  - Dangerous Moves
This movie is French-speaking and this should be noted. I hadn't a clue and would not have purchased had I known.
Rating: - 4 stars if you like chess and 2.5 if you don't...
The only reason I like this movie a lot is b/c I love chess. If I didn't, then I would have been thoroughly bored. If you want to know about the movie, just read the synopsis at the top of this page! A 2.5 warrants a..."I'm making a big mistake on renting this, but heh, I'm desperate" type of scenario. If you are a chess fan, you will notice that at one point in the movie, Fromm (the chess challenger) finds a great line to play against the champion while he is analyzing chess positions in the ... Read More
Rating: - gosh i miss cold war movies; arabs are so boring ...
a taut cold war test of wills centered around a world championship chess match between an apolitical soviet grand master and his mentally unbalanced onetime student who has now defected to the west. as fascinating as a movie about chess can be.
Rating:  - Gripping psychological thriller
Set in Geneva at the World Chess Championships, the Soviet world champ vs. the free west challenger. What the two opponents imagine and hope to be a personal grudge match turns out to be a politically maneuvered competition. The KGB will go to any extreme to see its player win, but it can't do anything about his ill health (though it tries), and the challenger is awarded the prize when the Russian has to withdraw. A taut, psychological thriller made even more bitter by the fact that no matter how ... Read More
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