The Chess Player

1938 ""

The Chess Player

6.5 | 1h10m | en | Drama

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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6.5 | 1h10m | en | Drama , History

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Françoise Rosay ,Conrad Veidt ,Bernard Lancret

Director

Lucien Aguettand

Producted By

Compagnie Française Cinématographique (CFC) ,

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Cast

Françoise Rosay

as Catherine II

[1973] Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese [1960] The Full Treatment [1959] The Sound and the Fury [1958] Me and the Colonel [1952] The Seven Deadly Sins [1951] The Red Inn [1950] September Affair [1948] Saraband for Dead Lovers [1938] The Chess Player

Conrad Veidt

as Le baron de Kempelen

[1943] Above Suspicion [1943] Casablanca [1942] All Through the Night [1942] Nazi Agent [1941] Whistling in the Dark [1941] A Woman's Face [1940] Contraband [1940] The Thief of Bagdad [1940] A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound