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The Chess Player

6.4 98 mins History   Drama   2017
Hernández y Fernández PC   Tornasol Media   Ishtar Films  
Director(s): Luis Oliveros

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.

Casts of The Chess Player

Marc Clotet

as Diego Padilla

Melina Matthews

as Marianne Latour

Alejo Sauras

as Javier Sánchez

Andrés Gertrúdix

as Pablo Mérida

Lionel Auguste

as Pierre Boileau

Stefan Weinert

as Colonel Maier

Martin Angerbauer

as Soldier Kuhn

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