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Joueur d'Échecs, Le

Le Joueur d'Échecs (1927)

Drama | 135 minutes
3,42 6 votes
2 comments

Genre: Drama

Duration: 135 minuten

Alternative title: The Chess Player

Country: France

Directed by: Raymond Bernard

Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin and Édith Jéhanne

IMDb score: 7,1 (360)

Releasedate: 17 May 1927

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Le Joueur d'Échecs plot

Polish Lithuania is toiled under the iron rule of Russia in 1776 and tensions between the Russian occupiers and the Poles are high. The eccentric inventor and Austrian diplomat Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen has in his care the stubborn soldier Boleslas Vorowski and his idealistic foster sister Sophie Novinska; both are leaders of the Polish resistance. Only the friendship between Boleslas and a Russian lieutenant, Prince Serge Oblooff and the (chess) rivalry with Major Nicolaieff, keep Boleslav and his supporters under control. However, when Boleslav kills a Russian soldier who raped a Polish dancer and Sophie leaves her lover, the Russian Prince, under pressure, the peace is over.

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Actors and actresses

Pierre Blanchar Pierre Blanchar

Boleslas Vorowski

Charles Dullin Charles Dullin

Baron von Kempelen

Édith Jéhanne Édith Jéhanne

Sophie Novinska

Camille Bert Camille Bert

Maj. Nicolaieff

Pierre Batcheff Pierre Batcheff

Prince Serge Oblomoff

Marcelle Charles Dullin Marcelle Charles Dullin

Wanda

Armand Bernard Armand Bernard

Roubenko

Alexiane Alexiane

Olga

Pierre Hot Pierre Hot

King Stanislas

Jaime Devesa Jaime Devesa

Prince Orloff

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Mug

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4 September 2007 at 13:35

Film that was brought back from obscurity because the documentary Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine used supporting images from this silent film. Namely that a chess computer with human characteristics had long existed in all kinds of forms, including the machine 'The Turk' (although there was also a real human hidden in it).

Le Joueur d'Échecs deals in mass scenes (war, revolution and a party in the Russian Imperial Palace). Remarkable are the scenes with Baron von Kempelen's machines/robots (often people who have a lot of difficulty not moving), which play a nice role in one of the final climaxes of the story.

Not a highlight of silent cinema, but entertaining nonetheless: a small 3.5*.

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MisterPink

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8 November 2023 at 20:08

There is no accounting for taste. Personally, I think Sophie's dream sequence in which she accompanies the Boleslas uprising to the chords of the Dąbrowski March is an absolute highlight of early cinema.

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