Film

The Chess Player

5.319381h 10mDrama History

Director: Jean Dréville
Year: 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.

Top 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

Jean Témerson

Stanislas

Edmonde Guy

Wanda Zalewska

Delphin

Manuel Gary

Gaston Modot

Directed by

Jean Dréville

Written by

André Doderet, Jean Dréville, Roger Vitrac, Bernard Zimmer

Produced by

Jacques Schwob-d'Héricourt, Antoine de Rouvre