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Joueur d'Échecs, Le

Le Joueur d'Échecs (1938)

Drama | 70 minutes

3,00 1 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 70 minuten

Alternative titles: The Chess Player / The Devil Is an Empress

Country: France

Directed by: Jean Dréville

Stars: Françoise Rosay, Conrad Veidt and Lili Raynova

IMDb score: 6,6 (82)

Releasedate: 25 November 1938

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Le Joueur d'Échecs plot

A baron at Katherina the Great's court constructs life-sized mechanical puppets that culminate in a chess-playing puppet in which a young Pole hides, who is plotting a revolution against the Tsarina.

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Actors and actresses

Françoise Rosay

Françoise Rosay

Catherine II

Conrad Veidt

Le baron de Kempelen

Bernard Lancret

Bernard Lancret

Le prince Serge Oblonsky

Micheline Francey

Micheline Francey

Sonia Vorowska

Le prince Boleslas Vorowsky

Jacques Grétillat

Jacques Grétillat

Potemkine

Jean Témerson

Stanislas

Edmonde Guy

Wanda Zalewska

Manuel Gary

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