A chess column sparks a revolution from behind bars — checkmate, dictatorship.
A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution.
Acting
Darío Grandinetti's quiet intensity carries every scene.
Writing
Brilliant metaphor of chess as coded revolution.
Director
Alberto Lecchi
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