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Shattered Games (2024)
Directed by Marek Bukowski
Overview
The Polish national chess squad, the ‘Golden Team’, won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the ‘Bombenmannschaft’ (‘Bomber Crew’). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery Tartakower, Mieczyslaw Najdorf, Paulin Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk. They battle to win the trophy as well as dealing with the mental illness of Rubinstein and the outbreak of World War II. The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.
Length 59 minutes
Actors
Jan Wieczorkowski | Wojciech Mecwaldowski | Jacek Knap | Dariusz Pieróg | Maciej Miszczak | Jędrzej Hycnar | Beata Fido | Anna Matysiak | Weronika Dzierżyńska | Magdalena Mascianica | Beata Wnęk-Malec | Antoni Gogółka | Błażej Wójcik | Maciej Półtorak | Witold Dębicki | Radomir Rospondek | Michał Pietrzak | Stanisław Banasiuk | Grzegorz Palkowski | Wieslaw Kupczak | Bartosz Adamczyk | Piotr Łukaszczyk | Nikodem Kasprowicz | Leszek Malec | Waldemar Kotas | Piotr Misztela | Marek Łukasik | Radosław Drożdż | Maciej Dancewicz | Grzegorz Pawlak