Dangerous trains

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Movie
German title Dangerous trains
Original title La diagonale du fou
Country of production Switzerland , France
original language French
Publishing year 1984
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Dembo
script Richard Dembo
production Arthur Cohn ,
Martine Marignac
music Gabriel Yared
camera Raoul Coutard
cut Agnes Guillemot
occupation

Dangerous Trains (alternatively: Duel without Mercy ) is a Swiss-French film by film director Richard Dembo from 1984.

action

It is a fictional story, the individual motifs of which are not fictitious, but rather go back to various duels for the chess championship , especially those between Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoli Karpov : A young Lithuanian emigrant from the Soviet Union challenges the aging world champion; the match takes place in neutral Switzerland and is played with all the hooks and eyes, from deliberate delays to hypnotists in the auditorium to the theft of the fountain pen. When the challenger leads 5: 3 and only needs one victory, the Soviets bring his wife - who has not emigrated with them and who they have meanwhile put in the insane asylum - to Switzerland in order to stress the challenger psychologically. At the same time, they allow the old cardiologist and friend of the world champion, who has a serious heart condition, to leave the country, which they had denied him for decades because the champion refuses any other doctor. The defending champion wins the next two games, so he can equalize, but has a heart attack immediately after the 5th victory and has to give up the fight, much to the annoyance of the challenger who wanted to win on the board. His comment is: "I said it right away, they'd rather let him die than win me." In the end, he plays the last game with the world champion at the bedside, with the macabre computer signal indicating that the heart of the ex-world champion is increasing wears off and eventually stops.

criticism

“Ambitious political thriller that strives for originality; skillfully and imaginatively staged, mostly played haunted. Nevertheless, it lacks a bit of tension and suspense because it is designed too systematically. "

- film service

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Others

The French title works with the ambiguity of the word fou, which cannot be reproduced in German : La diagonale du fou is actually the diagonal of the bishop on the chessboard; but fou also means ' fool '.

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