Pawn sacrifice - game of kings
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pawn sacrifice - game of kings |
| Original title | Pawn Sacrifice |
| Country of production | United States , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 8 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edward Zwick |
| script | Steven Knight |
| production |
Gail Katz , Tobey Maguire , Edward Zwick |
| music | James Newton Howard |
| camera | Bradford Young |
| cut | Steven Rosenblum |
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Pawn Sacrifice - Game of Kings (Original title: Pawn Sacrifice ) is an American - Canadian feature film by director Edward Zwick from 2014 .
The film deals with the life of the eccentric chess player Bobby Fischer and primarily his battle with Boris Spassky for the world title in chess during the World Chess Championship 1972 , also known as "Match of the Century" in the chess history came in. Tobey Maguire took on the role of Bobby Fischer ; his opponent Boris Spasski is played by Liev Schreiber .
action
At the height of the Cold War, the eccentric chess player Bobby Fischer fears being spied on by the Soviet Union. He remembers his childhood in the late 1940s. His mother, who lived in Moscow for a few years, warns him about spies. Bobby turns to chess and an extraordinary talent quickly shows up. His first chess teacher is Carmine Nigro , the chairman of the Brooklyn Chess Club. Bobby soon competed in professional chess tournaments and became the youngest US champion at the time .
At the 1962 Chess Olympiad in Varna , Bulgaria , Fischer assumes that the Soviet players consult with one another during the games.
On his return to the United States, the patriotic attorney Paul Marshall offers him pro bono support in changing the tournament rules. Fischer agrees and chooses former champion William Lombardy , who had meanwhile become a priest, as the second . This succeeds in calming the eccentric fisherman so that he can win competitions again. He is about to become world chess champion , but then loses an important game against the reigning world champion Boris Spasski .
The US government supports Fischer's goal of the World Cup in order to exploit an American's victory over a representative of the Soviet Union for propaganda purposes. After all, Fischer won the title of World Chess Champion 1972 in Reykjavík in the “ Match of the Century ”. The competition is on the verge of failure several times due to Fischer's failures. After all, after 21 games he emerged as the winner with 12½: 8½.
The epilogue names other stations in Fisher's life: His mental state deteriorated. He retired from tournament chess. In 1980 he was arrested for vagrancy. In 1992 he went to another game against Spassky in Yugoslavia . In doing so, however, he violated the US economic embargo on Yugoslavia, whereupon the US issued an arrest warrant against him. He harbored conspiracy theories against the US and the Jews and traveled the world until Iceland granted him asylum in 2005. He spent the last years of his life in Reykjavík, where he died in 2008.
reception
The film was received largely benevolently by the film critics. Rotten Tomatoes had 72% positive ratings based on 100 reviews, with Tobey Maguire's acting being particularly praised. Metacritic has an overall rating of 65/100 points based on 29 reviews.
Filmstarts rates the film with 4 out of 5 stars and sums it up: "In his gripping biopic about the chess genius Bobby Fischer, Edward Zwick tells of a tragically torn personality and of the excesses of the Cold War."
With a budget of around 19 million US dollars, it was only able to bring in 5.6 million US dollars worldwide.
additional
Director Edward Zwick said of the film's title: “You have Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon on one side and Leonid Brezhnev and KGB agents on the other. Both men (Fischer and Spasski) were pawn pawns of their nations ”.
Awards
- Prism Awards 2016
- Nominated for best feature film
- Young Artist Awards 2016
- Best young actor under the age of 13: Aiden Lovekamp
Web links
- Pawn - game of kings in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Interview with producer Gail Katz and chess grandmaster Maxim Dlugy (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for pawn sacrifice - Game of Kings . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age designation for pawn sacrifices - game of kings . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Pawn sacrifice - Game of Kings at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Pawn sacrifice - Game of Kings at Metacritic (English)
- ↑ Pawn Sacrifice - Game of Kings at film releases
- ^ Pawn Sacrifice (2015) . In: Box Office Mojo , accessed April 20, 2017
- ↑ Susannah Bragg McCullough: How does the title of "Pawn Sacrifice" highlight the intense political stakes underlying 1970s chess? . September 21, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2017.