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.
André Doderet
Writer
Lucien Aguettand
Art Direction
Jean Dréville
Director
Jean Dréville
Writer
Roger Vitrac
Writer
Bernard Zimmer
Writer
Jacques Schwob-d'Héricourt
Producer
Marcel Magniez
Production Design
Antoine de Rouvre
Producer
Albert Guyot
Writer
Georges K. Benda
Costume Design
Henry Dupuy-Mazuel
Novel
Jean Lenoir
Original Music Composer
André Thomas
Director of Photography
René Gaveau
Director of Photography