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Acting
Pullman's drunk genius walk is a masterclass in barely holding it together.
Production
Communist-era Warsaw recreated with suffocating authenticity.
Writing
Chess moves as coded spy tradecraft—actually clever, not pretentious.
Director
Łukasz Kośmicki
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