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The Chess Player
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The Chess Player

1938
Directed byJean Dréville
1h 10m

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

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Françoise RosayCatherine IIConrad VeidtLe baron de KempelenBernard LancretLe prince Serge Oblonsky
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DramaHistory
STATUSReleased
RATING
4.4

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