Release Date
2017-05-05
Status
Released
Original Title
El jugador de ajedrez
Runtime
1h 38m
Revenue
$244,806
Original Language
ES
Production Countries
Spain
Production Companies
Hernández y Fernández PC, Tornasol Media, Ishtar Films
Overview
In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.
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