Dangerous Moves (1984)
Original title: La Diagonale du fou
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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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Michel PiccoliAkiva Liebskind
Alexandre ArbatPavius Fromm
Liv UllmannMarina Fromm
Leslie CaronHenia Liebskind
Wojciech PszoniakLe grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm
Jean-Hugues AngladeMiller, l'équipe de Fromm
Daniel OlbrychskiTac-Tac, l'équipe de Liebskind
Hubert Saint-MacaryFoldes
Michel AumontStepan Ivanovitch Kerossian - l'équipe de LiebskindPierre MichaëlYachvili
Serge AvédikianFadenko
Pierre VialAnton HellerKeywords
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What is Dangerous Moves about?
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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Dangerous Moves has a runtime of 110 minutes.
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