Plot
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.
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Cast
Michel Piccoli
Akiva Liebskind
Alexandre Arbatt
Pavius Fromm
Liv Ullmann
Marina Fromm
Leslie Caron
Henia Liebskind
Wojciech Pszoniak
Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Miller, l'équipe de Fromm
Daniel Olbrychski
Tac-Tac, l'équipe de Liebskind
Hubert Saint-Macary
Foldes
Michel Aumont
Stepan Ivanovitch Kerossian - l'équipe de Liebskind
Pierre Michaël
Yachvili
Serge Avédikian
Fadenko
Pierre Vial
Anton Heller
Bernhard Wicki
Pühl
Jacques Boudet
Stuffli
Benoît Régent
Barabal
Sylvie Granotier
Dombert
Albert Simono
Dalcroze
Marcel Tassimot
Protazanov
Olivier Beer
Journalist
Jean-Paul Eydoux
Carsen
Jean-Philippe Guerand
A Guy in the Audience
Piotr Kamiński
journalist
Yaseen Khan
Hindou
Constantin Melnik
KGB colonel
Willy Nicoidsky
Polotin
Alain Rimoux
Dr. Randeller
Mathieu Schiffman
Journalist
Daniel Tixier
Referee
John Van Der Bois
Referee
Emmanuel Cohn
Kid (uncredited)
Nurith Cohn
Spectator (uncredited)
