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Dangerous Moves

Dangerous Moves

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 15, 1984

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama, Thriller

User Score

58%

Original Title

La Diagonale du fou

Production Companies

Ministère de la culture, Michael Arthur Films, La Cécilia

Director

Richard Dembo

Description

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.