The Chess Player

Name: The Chess Player
Director: Jean Dréville
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1938-11-25
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Françoise Rosay, Conrad Veidt, Bernard Lancret, Micheline Francey, Paul Cambo

Original title: Le Joueur d'échecs

5.3(5)19381h 10mFR

Directed by Jean Dréville

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

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