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Director:
Richard Dembo
Writer:
Richard Dembo
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Release Date:
24 May 1985 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Drama | Thriller See more »
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations See more »
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Cast

  (in credits order)

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 Avedikian ... Fadenko
Pierre Vial ... Anton Heller
Bernhard Wicki ... Pühl
Jacques Boudet ... Stuffli
Benoît Régent ... Barabal
Sylvie Granotier ... Dombert
Albert Simono ... Dalcroze
Marcel Tassimot ... Protazanov
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Olivier Beer
Jean-Paul Eydoux ... Carsen
Jean-Philippe Guerand ... A Guy in the Audience
Piotr Kaminski
Yaseen Khan
Constantin Melnik
Willy Nicoidsky ... Polotin
Alain Rimoux
Mathieu Schiffman ... Un ournaliste
Daniel Tixier
John Van Der Bois
Emmanuel Cohn ... Kid (uncredited)
Nurith Cohn ... Spectator (uncredited)
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Directed by
Richard Dembo 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Richard Dembo 

Produced by
Arthur Cohn .... producer
Martine Marignac .... producer
 
Original Music by
Gabriel Yared 
 
Cinematography by
Raoul Coutard 
 
Film Editing by
Agnès Guillemot 
 
Production Design by
Ivan Maussion 
 
Art Direction by
Ivan Maussion 
 
Costume Design by
Pierre Albert 
 
Makeup Department
Fouzia Harleman .... key hair stylist
Dominique Plez .... makeup artist
 
Sound Department
John Marshall .... adr editor (uncredited)
 
Editorial Department
Catherine Trouillet .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Peter Fernandez .... dialogue director (English version)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"La diagonale du fou" - France (original title)
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Runtime:
France:110 min | Switzerland:95 min | USA:100 min | Argentina:102 min
Country:
France | Liechtenstein
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:15
Company:
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Trivia:
In the final game, Pavius and Akiva play the French Defence / Paulsen Attack. The moves are as follows: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Be2 cxd4 7. cxd4 Nh6 8. Nc3 Nf5 9. Na4 Bb4+ 10. Bd2 Qa5 11. Bc3 b5 12. a3 Bxc3+ 13. Nxc3 b4 14. axb4 Qxb4 The film ends here; at this point, it is much too early in the game to determine who will win.See more »
Goofs:
Factual errors: Early in the film, Liebskind describes a move as "Rook to G-10". There is no G-10 on the chessboard; the numbers only go to 8. This error is in the subtitles only and was a mistranslation; the actual line ends with "huit", French for eight.See more »
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The Cold War in a chess game, 19 September 1999
Author: paulo BH from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Disputing the world title of chess, sit down in chairs opposite two soviets. However, none of the two is Russian: one of them, the champion, is Jewish. The other, the challenger, is a Lithuanian, political exile that is refugee in another country. This game will be a mirror of the Cold War: each movement is dangerous, each play is strategically important. Who is the best? The communist Jew, obedient to the Soviet state, or the Lithuanian traitor, enemy of the proletarian revolution? A beautiful end, where the game in itself has, for both, a larger importance than the world title and they consequences. A good film, with reasonable tension, great representative of the rare Swiss movies.

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