The Coldest Game
(2019)
★ 6.2 IMDb · 337 votes
Year: 2019
Runtime: 102 мин
Country: Poland
Director: Łukasz Kośmicki
Cast: Билл Пуллман, Lotte Verbeek, James Bloor, Роберт Венцкевич, Алексей Серебряков, Кори Джонсон, Николас Фэррел, Евгений Сидихин, Cezary Kosiński, Александр Лобанов
Plot
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.
Playing a major chess match in Warsaw against the Russian champion, brilliant but forgotten former US champion, and alcoholic, Josh Mansky is sucked into the world of espionage and conflict between the world's superpowers. As the military crisis escalates the chess match takes on unimaginable importance. The Americans are in danger of losing both games - the chess game and the one for world domination.