Dangerous Moves

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.

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