The Chess Player

The Chess Player — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 25, 1938
• Runtime
• 70 min
• Genres
• Drama, History
• Director
• Jean Dréville

The Chess Player — Cast

Françoise Rosay Catherine II Conrad Veidt Le baron de Kempelen Bernard Lancret Le prince Serge Oblonsky Micheline Francey Sonia Vorowska Paul Cambo Le prince Boleslas Vorowsky Jacques Grétillat Potemkine

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Jean Témerson Stanislas Edmonde Guy Wanda Zalewska