The Chess Player

The Chess Player

4.7

French/70 min./1938

Genres

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Françoise Rosay

Conrad Veidt

Bernard Lancret

Micheline Francey

Jean Témerson

Manuel Gary

Gaston Modot

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