Release Date

15 Apr, 1984

Runtime

01:50: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

La Diagonale du fou

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Actors

Michel Piccoli

Alexandre Arbatt

Liv Ullmann

Leslie Caron

Wojciech Pszoniak

Jean-Hugues Anglade

Daniel Olbrychski

Hubert Saint-Macary

Michel Aumont

Pierre Michaël

Serge Avédikian

Pierre Vial

Bernhard Wicki

Jacques Boudet

Benoît Régent

Sylvie Granotier

Albert Simono

Marcel Tassimot

Olivier Beer

Jean-Paul Eydoux

Jean-Philippe Guerand

Crew

Richard Dembo

Arthur Cohn

Martine Marignac

Gabriel Yared

Agnès Guillemot

Ivan Maussion

Ivan Maussion

Pierre Albert

Fouzia Harleman

Dominique Plez

John Marshall

Richard Dembo

Peter Fernandez

Raoul Coutard