Drama ·History · France · 1938 · 1h 10m

The Chess Player

Le Joueur d'échecs

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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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