Dangerous Moves

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Dangerous Moves
original movie poster
Directed by	Richard Dembo
Written by	Richard Dembo
Starring	Michel Piccoli Alexandre Arbatt Liv Ullmann
Release date(s)	April 25, 1984 24 May 1985
Running time	110 min.
Language	French
IMDb profile

Dangerous Moves is a 1984 French language film directed by Richard Dembo and starring Michel Piccoli and Alexandre Arbatt. Its original French title is La diagonale du fou (The Madman's Diagonal). The film was a co-production between companies in France and Switzerland. It tells the story of two very different men competing in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew who has been a chess master for the past 12 years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.

1 Awards
2 Cast and roles include
3 DVD releases
4 External links

[edit] Awards

The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984; it was submitted by the Swiss government, and gave that nation its first Oscar win. It also won the Prix Louis Delluc, the Prix de l'Académide du Cinéma and the César Award for Best Debut.

[edit] Cast and roles include

Michel Piccoli - Akiva Liebskind
Alexandre Arbatt - Pavius Fromm
Liv Ullmann - Marina Fromm
Leslie Caron - Henia Liebskind
Wojciech Pszoniak - Felton, Fromm's team
Jean-Hugues Anglade - Miller, Fromm's team
Daniel Olbrychski - Tac-Tac, Liebskind's friend
Hubert Saint-Macary - Foldes
Michel Aumont - Kerossian, Liebskind's friend
Pierre Michaël - Yachvili
Serge Avedikian - Fadenko
Pierre Vial - Anton Heller
Bernhard Wicki - Puhl
Jacques Boudet - Stuffli
Benoît Régent - Barabal

[edit] DVD releases

The graphical interface and special features of the Region 2 DVD were entirely created by a group of students from the International Institute of Multimedia in Paris, lead by Eric Axelson, and under the direct supervision of director Richard Dembo.^{[citation needed]}