Times change. The stakes remain the same
Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
- 6.2
- 2019
- Released
- 1h 44m
Bill Pullman
Joshua Mansky
Lotte Verbeek
Agent Stone
James Bloor
Agent White
Robert Więckiewicz
Alfred
Aleksey Serebryakov
Gienadij Krutow
Corey Johnson
Donald Novak
Nicholas Farrell
G. Moran
Evgeniy Sidikhin
Jurij Gawryłow
Cezary Kosiński
'John Gift'
Aleksandr Lobanov
Adiutant Krutowa
Wojciech Mecwaldowski
Magdalena Boczarska
Bartender Gienia
Andy Beckwith
Taxi in New York
John Benfield
Ludwik Borkowski
Małgorzata Klara
Ksawery Szlenkier
Marcin Juchniewicz
Policjant przy blokadzie drogi
Maurycy Łyczko
Released
pl
- #chess
- #cold war
- #affectation
- #macabre
- #cuban missile crisis
- #1960s
- #warsaw, poland
- #math genius
- #ironic
- #malicious
- #vindictive
- #clinical
- #dramatic
- #critical
- #egotistical
- #antagonistic
- #apologetic
- #appreciative
- #audacious
- #awestruck
- #cliché
- #conceited
- #cruel
Reviews
What does make this espionage thriller remarkable is it's plausibility... Now, in 2020, we would never give a second thought to an international chess competition but like many others, I recall the fuss made when the world championships really did become an intellectual version of the cold war between the USSR and the USA. Go back to the Cuban missile crisis, when the world was on the brink of an