Dangerous Moves
Information about Dangerous Moves
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| Directed by | Richard Dembo |
| Written by | Richard Dembo |
| Starring | Michel Piccoli Alexandre Arbatt Liv Ullmann |
| Release date(s) | ){kind=small} April 25, 198424 May, 1985 |
| Running time | 110 min. |
| Language | French |
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Dangerous Moves is a 1984 French language film about chess, directed by Richard Dembo and starring Michel Piccoli and Alexandre Arbatt. Its original French title is La diagonale du fou ("The Fool's Diagonal", referring to the chess piece called the bishop in English but the fool in French). The film was a co-production between companies in France and Switzerland. It tells the story of two very different men competing in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew who has been a chess master for the past 12 years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.
Awards
The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984; it was submitted by the Swiss government, and gave that nation its first Oscar win. It also won the Prix Louis Delluc, the Prix de l'Académide du Cinéma and the César Award for Best Debut.Cast and roles include
- Michel Piccoli - Akiva Liebskind
- Alexandre Arbatt - Pavius Fromm
- Liv Ullmann - Marina Fromm
- Leslie Caron - Henia Liebskind
- Wojciech Pszoniak - Felton, Fromm's team
- Jean-Hugues Anglade - Miller, Fromm's team
- Daniel Olbrychski - Tac-Tac, Liebskind's friend
- Hubert Saint-Macary - Foldes
- Michel Aumont - Kerossian, Liebskind's friend
- Pierre Michaël - Yachvili
- Serge Avedikian - Fadenko
- Pierre Vial - Anton Heller
- Bernhard Wicki - Puhl
- Jacques Boudet - Stuffli
- Benoît Régent - Barabal
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| Preceded by Fanny and Alexander | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1984 | Succeeded by The Official Story |
Richard Dembo (Born May 24 1948 in Paris; died November 11 2004 in Paris) was a French director and screenwriter.
Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou.
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Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou.
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Richard Dembo (Born May 24 1948 in Paris; died November 11 2004 in Paris) was a French director and screenwriter.
Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou.
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Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou.
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Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine
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Richard Dembo (Born May 24 1948 in Paris; died November 11 2004 in Paris) was a French director and screenwriter.
Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou.
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Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou.
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Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine
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Chess pieces vary in both value and abilities. A standard chess match consists of each player having the follow equipment:
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bishop (♗ ♝) is a piece in the board game of chess. Each player begins the game with two bishops. One starts between the king's knight and the king, the other between the queen's knight and the queen.
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jester, joker, fool or buffoon is a specific type of entertainer mostly (but not always) associated with the Middle Ages. Jesters typically wore brightly colored clothing in a motley pattern.
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Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (Latin) (traditional)[1]
"One for all, all for one"
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"Swiss Psalm"
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Le Prix Louis-Delluc is a French film award. It is given all the years from its creation in 1937, the second Thursday of December. The jury is composed by 20 members, a group of film critics and personalities from the culture life. Gilles Jacob is the president.
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The César Award for Best Debut (César de la meilleure première œuvre in French) was an award give out at the annual César Awards between 1982 and 1999. In 2000 it was renamed the César Award for Best Debut in Fiction (
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Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine
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Leslie Caron
Birth name Leslie Claire Margaret Caron
Born July 1 1931
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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Birth name Leslie Claire Margaret Caron
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Wojciech Pszoniak (born in 1942 in Lwów, Poland, currently Ukraine), is a Polish film and theater actor.
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Daniel Olbrychski (born February 27, 1945 in Łowicz, Poland) is a popular Polish actor. He played leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies. He also appeared in one of the ten short films in Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Decalogue
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