Shattered Games (2024)

History
Drama
TV Movie

The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery Tartakower, Mieczyslaw Najdorf, Paulin Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk. They battle to win the trophy as well as dealing with the mental illness of Rubinstein and the outbreak of World War II. The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.

Cast

Dawid Przepiórka
Akiba Rubinstein
Służąca Salcia
Chłopiec widmo
Doktor Kostro
Ksawery Tartakower
Dziennikarz nazista
Sędzia olimpijski
Dziennikarz Polskiego Radia
Argentyński dziennikarz
Komentator radiowy
Paulin Frydman
Kazimierz Makarczyk
Mieczysław Najdorf
Żona Rubinsteina
Charlotta Haren

Crew

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