The Chess Player

Name: The Chess Player
Director: Luis Oliveros
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2017-05-05
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.31
Cast: Marc Clotet, Melina Matthews, Alejo Sauras, Maarten Dannenberg, Andrés Gertrúdix

Directed by Luis Oliveros

History

Drama

20171h 38m6.3

Overview

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.