Jean Dréville
Director
The Chess Player (1938)
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.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, History
Keywords: tmdb.chess, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.chess, imdb.young, aspectratio.1-37-1
Production Companies: Compagnie Française Cinématographique (CFC)
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Runtime: 70 min.
Released: Nov. 25, 1938
Status: Released
Certification: NR