The Chess Player (1927)
With Armand Bernard, Camille Bert, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Pierre Batcheff, Pierre Blanchar
Directed by Raymond Bernard
The Chess Player (French: Le Joueur d'échecs) is a 1927 French silent film directed by Raymond Bernard and based on a novel by Henry Dupuy-Mazuel. It is a historical drama set in the late 18th century during the Russian domination of Polish Lithuania, and elements of the plot are drawn from the story of the chess-playing automaton known as The Turk.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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