Original title
El jugador de ajedrez
Released
5/5/2017
Origin country
ES
Genre
Drama, History
Production companies
Tornasol Media, Hernández y Fernández PC, Ishtar Films
Budget
—
Revenue
$244,806.00
Runtime
1hr 38min
In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.
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