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The Chess Player [Le Joueur d'échecs]

Release Year
1927
Runtime
2h 15m
Genres
Drama
Fantasy
War
Directed By
Raymond Bernard
The Chess Player

In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Pierre Blanchar

Boleslas Vorowski

Charles Dullin

Baron von Kempelen

Édith Jéhanne

Sophie Novinska

Camille Bert

Maj. Nicolaieff

Pierre Batcheff

Prince Serge Oblomoff

Marcelle Charles Dullin

Wanda

Armand Bernard

Roubenko

Alexiane

Olga

Pierre Hot

King Stanislas

Jaime Devesa

Prince Orloff

Fridette Fatton

Pola

Pierre Mindaist

Crew

Raymond Bernard

Director

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller

Director of Photography

Marc Bujard

Director of Photography

Willy Faktorovitch

Director of Photography

Eugène Lourié

Costume Design

Henry Dupuy-Mazuel

Novel

Jean-José Frappa

Writer

Raymond Bernard

Writer

W. Percy Day

Special Effects Supervisor

Jean Perrier

Art Direction

Robert Mallet-Stevens

Set Decoration

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