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Jour Sa Vie (1982)
, 1h20Directed by Gilles Carle
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Fernando Arrabal
Le film décrit les personnalités et les stratégies de Bobby Fischer, Viktor Kortchnoï, Anatoli Karpov et d'autres champions d'échecs.
, 1h43Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Bruno Ganz, Ljuba Tadić, Alexander Hegarth
A scientist, who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that ruthless capitalism is preferable to socialism.
The Chess Players (1977)
, 2h9Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Richard Attenborough, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Amjad Khan
The film shows in parallel the historical drama of the Indian kingdom Awadh (whose capital is Lucknow) and its Muslim Nawab Wajid Ali Shah who is overthrown by the British, alongside the story of two shatranj (chess) obsessed noblemen.
Return from the Ashes (1965)
, 1h45Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Maximilian Schell, Ingrid Thulin, Samantha Eggar, Herbert Lom, Talitha Getty, Vladek Sheybal
Shortly before the Nazi invasion of France, Dr. Michele Wulf (Thulin) encounters the younger Stanislaus Pilgrin (Schell) over a game of lightning chess, not being aware that Pilgrin is a chess master. She becomes intrigued with the fortune-hunting Pilgrin and the two begin a liaison. Upon the Nazi invasion, in order to protect Michele, who is Jewish, Stan marries her, to no avail it turns out when the Gestapo arrests her and sends her to a concentration camp.
, 1h27Directed by Kenji Misumi
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Films about chess, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Mikio Narita, Saburo Date, Ryō Horikawa
On a boat trip to Honshu island, Zatoichi (Katsu) makes the acquaintance of Jumonji (Narita), an expert shogi (Japanese chess) player and swordsman. Once on Honshu, a group of men that had tried to cheat Zatoichi at dice try to take revenge upon him- only for Ichi to turn the tables on them in the tussle. However, Miki, the niece of a woman named Otane, is injured in the confusion, compelling Ichi to go to great lengths to procure the medicine needed to cure her injury. When she recovers, the child sincerely thanks him, leaving him overwrought with emotion.
Brainwashed (1960)
, 1h44Directed by Gerd Oswald
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Films about chess, Political films
Actors Curd Jürgens, Hansjörg Felmy, Claire Bloom, Mario Adorf, Hans Söhnker, Albert Bessler
Chess world champion Centowic wants to travel by ship to an important chess tournament. The ship, however, starts behind schedule, because a mysterious and obviously anxious passenger, who is on his way to the port with Bishop Ambrosse, is expected.
The Seventh Seal (1957)
, 1h36Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Jeu, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Films about chess, Films about viral outbreaks, Films based on plays
Actors Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Gill
Disillusioned knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) and his nihilistic squire Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand) return after fighting in the Crusades and find Sweden being ravaged by the plague. On the beach immediately after their arrival, the knight encounters Death (Bengt Ekerot), personified as a pale, black-cowled figure resembling a monk. The knight, in the middle of a chess game he has been playing alone, challenges Death to a chess match, believing that he can forestall his demise as long as the game continues. Death agrees, and they start a new game.
The Chess Player (1938)
, 1h30Directed by Jean Dréville, Jacques Vitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Jeu, Films about chess
Actors Françoise Rosay, Conrad Veidt, Micheline Francey, Gaston Modot, Jacques Grétillat, Bernard Lancret
Un jeune patriote polonais nommé Boleslas, dont la tête est mise à prix, tente de s'enfuir des frontières russes, dissimulé dans un des automates du baron de Kempelen. Un agent de Catherine II de Russie, qui a compris le subterfuge, achète l'automate pour le livrer à l'impératrice. Celui-ci sera amené à se trahir au cours d'une partie d'échecs.
The Chess Player (1927)
, 2h15Directed by Raymond Bernard, Jean Hémard
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy
Themes Jeu, Films about chess
Actors Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Camille Bert, Pierre Batcheff, Jackie Monnier
In 1776, a young Polish patriot, Boleslas Vorowski, is wounded in an abortive uprising against the Russian forces in Vilnius. A reward for his capture is offered but he is sheltered by Baron von Kempelen, an inventor of lifelike automata, who plans to smuggle Vorowski, a skilful chess-player, to Germany concealed inside a chess-playing automaton called The Turk. Major Nicolaïeff, a Russian rival of Vorowski, challenges The Turk to a game and is defeated, but he realises that the machine is being secretly operated by Vorowski. He arranges for The Turk to be sent to Moscow to entertain the Empress Catherine II. When The Turk refuses to allow Catherine to cheat, the Empress orders that the automaton is to be executed by firing squad at dawn. During a masked ball, von Kempelen replaces Vorowski inside The Turk, to enable him to escape with his lover Sophie. Nicolaïeff, who has been sent to search von Kempelen's house, is slain by the inventor's sabre-wielding automata.
Chess Fever (1925)
, 18minutesDirected by Vsevolod Poudovkine
Genres Comedy
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Vladimir Fogel, Boris Barnet, Mikhail Zharov, Yakov Protazanov, Anatoli Ktorov, Youli Raizman
The hero's (Vladimir Fogel) preoccupation with chess leads to him missing his own wedding ceremony, but the marital peace is restored with the help of the World Chess Champion, José Raúl Capablanca.
A Chess Dispute (1903)
, 1minutesDirected by Robert W. Paul
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
À la terrasse d'un pub, deux jeunes gens élégants (blazers et chapeaux de paille) jouent aux échecs. L'un d'eux, profitant d'un moment d'inattention de son partenaire, déplace une pièce décisive. L'autre s'en aperçoit, une querelle s'installe, le tricheur se voit pincer le nez et riposte en aspergeant son adversaire d'eau de Seltz. Ils en viennent aux mains, renversent la table, roulent à terre, disparaissant à nos yeux. Le combat se poursuit, hors-champ, une jambe surgit, un bras brandissant une chaussure, les canotiers traversent les airs, les cravates, les vestes giclent en tous sens… Le serveur arrive, scandalisé, et remonte (dans le champ de la caméra) les deux querelleurs, couverts d'ecchymoses et étourdis de coups.