Movielogr
Dangerous Moves (1984)
Directed by Richard Dembo
Overview
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.
Length 110 minutes
Actors
Michel Piccoli | Alexandre Arbatt | Liv Ullmann | Leslie Caron | Wojciech Pszoniak | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Daniel Olbrychski | Hubert Saint-Macary | Michel Aumont | Pierre Michaël | Serge Avedikian | Pierre Vial | Bernhard Wicki | Jacques Boudet | Benoît Régent | Sylvie Granotier | Albert Simono | Marcel Tassimot | Olivier Beer | Jean-Paul Eydoux | Jean-Philippe Guerand | Piotr Kamiński | Yaseen Khan | Constantin Melnik | Willy Nicoidsky | Alain Rimoux | Mathieu Schiffman | Daniel Tixier | John Van Der Bois | Emmanuel Cohn | Nurith Cohn