Academy Award Winning Dangerous Moves

As we head into Oscar weekend, TheArchive is proud to present one of our favorite Academy Award winning films, Dangerous Moves.

It is the story of two chess masters who duel each other in classic gameplay but discover that it is their differing ideologies that truly raise the stakes.

When aging Soviet Jew and title holder Akiva Liebskind arrives in Geneva to face off against his former student and USSR defector in the World Championship match, the Soviet authorities threaten to harm Akiva's family if he does not defeat the rogue player.

Their differences will be put to the ultimate test when discovering they are mere pawns in a much more sinister game.

TheArchive brings you the Oscar winning Arthur Cohn production of Dangerous Moves.

“An engrossing Swiss film that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the cerebral sport of chess.” - Spirituality and Practice Review

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