Watch: La Diagonale du fou 1984 123movies, Full Movie Online – Two masters of chess duel each other not only in their game but also in their different ideologies. The veteran Akiva is a Soviet Jew and ferocious Communist, master of his game but also dealing with a declining health while the young and restless genius Pavius has defected to the West to escape from the Communism tentacles. Their differences will be put to test while they’re both competing in the World Chess Championship, with a huge prize at stake just as much as the political ideologies behind those characters..
Plot: World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.
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The Cold War in a chess game
Disputing the world title of chess, sit down in chairs opposite two soviets. However, none of the two is Russian: one of them, the champion, is Jewish. The other, the challenger, is a Lithuanian, political exile that is refugee in another country. This game will be a mirror of the Cold War: each movement is dangerous, each play is strategically important. Who is the best? The communist Jew, obedient to the Soviet state, or the Lithuanian traitor, enemy of the proletarian revolution? A beautiful end, where the game in itself has, for both, a larger importance than the world title and they consequences. A good film, with reasonable tension, great representative of the rare Swiss movies.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min), 1 hr 50 min (110 min) (France), 1 hr 35 min (95 min) (Switzerland), 1 hr 40 min (100 min) (USA), 1 hr 42 min (102 min) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama, Sport, Thriller
Director Richard Dembo
Writer Richard Dembo
Actors Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann
Country France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1, 1.78 : 1, 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory LTC Joinville
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Agfa-Gevaert)