Dangerous Moves

Name: Dangerous Moves
Director: Richard Dembo
Released: 1984-3-15
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron, Wojciech Pszoniak

Movie

Title	La Diagonale du fou
User score	5.8
Release date	Apr 15, 1984
Genre	Drama, Thriller
Director	Richard Dembo
Production country	France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland
Production companies	Ministère de la culture, Michael Arthur Films, La Cécilia
Run time	110 min.

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.