The Great Chess Movie (1982)
In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.
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Cast
Pascal Rollin
as Narrator (voice)
Anatoli Karpov
as Self
Anatoli Karpov is a top-ranked Russian chess player, world champion 1975-85..
Fernando Arrabal
as Self
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955. Arrabal has directed seven full-lengt...
Bobby Fischer
as Self (archive footage)
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess prodigy, grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time.
At age 13 Fischer won a "brill...
Director
Gilles Carle
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