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The Coldest Game (2019)

The Coldest Game (2019)

Drama Thriller

Times change. The stakes remain the same

Release Date: 2019, November 8
Directors: Łukasz Kośmicki
Countries: Poland
Production: Watchout Studio, Next Film, CANAL+ Polska, Big City Outdoor, The Story Lab, Poręczenia Kredytowe, Kosafilm, Galeria Olśnienia Go, TVN Film
Cast: Corey Johnson, James Bloor, Lotte Verbeek, Andy Beckwith, Aleksey Serebryakov, Cezary Kosiński, Bill Pullman, Nicholas Farrell, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Robert Więckiewicz, Aleksandr Lobanov, Magdalena Boczarska

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

apologetic cliché audacious critical cold war dramatic conceited cruel affectation malicious chess appreciative antagonistic awestruck macabre 1960s clinical vindictive math genius egotistical ironic warsaw, poland cuban missile crisis