The Chess Player
The Devil Is an Empress
Original title: Le Joueur d'échecs
Original language: frIMDB: tt0030292
TMDB: 259194
Release date: Friday, 25th November 1938
Adult: No
Duration: 1h 10min
Popularity: 1.611
Rate: 4.7 / 3 votes
Overview: 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.
Popularity: 1.611
Rate: 4.7 / 3 votes
Overview: 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.
Directors
Jean Dréville (Director)
(Director)Writers
André Doderet (Writer)
(Writer)Jean Dréville (Writer)
(Writer)Roger Vitrac (Writer)
(Writer)Bernard Zimmer (Writer)
(Writer)Albert Guyot (Writer)
(Writer)Henry Dupuy-Mazuel (Novel)
(Novel)Cast
Françoise Rosay
(Catherine II)
(Catherine II)Conrad Veidt
(Le baron de Kempelen)
(Le baron de Kempelen)Bernard Lancret
(Le prince Serge Oblonsky)
(Le prince Serge Oblonsky)Micheline Francey
(Sonia Vorowska)
(Sonia Vorowska)Paul Cambo (Le prince Boleslas Vorowsky)
(Le prince Boleslas Vorowsky)Jacques Grétillat (Potemkine)
(Potemkine)Jean Témerson
(Stanislas)
(Stanislas)Edmonde Guy (Wanda Zalewska)
(Wanda Zalewska)
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