On Monday 23 November at 19:00, Utopolis-Kirchberg will screen the Avant-Premier of Pawn Sacrifice, the biopic of US chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer.
Pawn Sacrifice (biopic / drama, 115 mins, in English). Directed by Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, Shakespeare in Love, Traffic, Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai) and starring Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man, Pleasantville, The Great Gatsby, The Cider House Rules), Liev Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate, The Last Days on Mars, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Peter Sarsgaard (Flightplan, Green Lantern, Knight and Day Blue Jasmine).
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. Pawn Sacrifice chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
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