The Great Chess Movie

Directed by Gilles Carle and Camille Coudari

With Pascal Rollin, Anatoli Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Fernando Arrabal and Boris Spassky

In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.