World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.
Michel Piccoli
Alexandre Arbatt
Liv Ullmann
Leslie Caron
Wojciech Pszoniak
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Daniel Olbrychski
Hubert Saint-Macary
Michel Aumont
Pierre Michaël
Serge Avédikian
Pierre Vial
Bernhard Wicki
Jacques Boudet
Benoît Régent
Sylvie Granotier
Albert Simono
Marcel Tassimot
Olivier Beer
Jean-Paul Eydoux
Jean-Philippe Guerand
Piotr Kamiński
Yaseen Khan
Constantin Melnik
Willy Nicoidsky
Alain Rimoux
Mathieu Schiffman
Daniel Tixier
John Van Der Bois
Emmanuel Cohn
Nurith Cohn