The Chess Player
70 mins
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
Lucien Aguettand
Art Direction
Roger Vitrac
Writer
Albert Guyot
Writer
Georges K. Benda
Costume Design
Jean Dréville
Director
Jean Dréville
Writer
Bernard Zimmer
Writer
André Doderet
Writer
Antoine de Rouvre
Producer
Marcel Magniez
Production Design
Jacques Schwob-d'Héricourt
Producer
René Gaveau
Director of Photography
Jean Lenoir
Original Music Composer
Henry Dupuy-Mazuel
Novel
André Thomas
Director of Photography