The Coldest Game
Times change. The stakes remain the same
6.2 / 10
104 minutes
2019-11-08
English
PL
Actors :
Bill Pullman, Lotte Verbeek, Nicholas Farrell, Corey Johnson, Robert Więckiewicz, James Bloor, Aleksey Serebryakov, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Cezary Kosiński, Aleksandr Lobanov, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Magdalena Boczarska, Andy Beckwith, John Benfield, Ludwik Borkowski
Description
Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
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CinemaSerf
3/28/2022, 10:55:03 AM
What does make this espionage thriller remarkable is it's plausibility... Now, in 2020, we would never give a second thought to an international chess competition but like many others, I recall the fuss made when the world championships really did become an intellectual version of the cold war between the USSR and the USA. Go back to the Cuban missile crisis, when the world was on the brink of an ...