Shattered Games (2024)
Overview
The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery Tartakower, Mieczyslaw Najdorf, Paulin Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk. They battle to win the trophy as well as dealing with the mental illness of Rubinstein and the outbreak of World War II. The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.
Cast
Jan Wieczorkowski
Dawid Przepiórka
Wojciech Mecwaldowski
Akiba Rubinstein
Jacek Feliks Knap
Ksawery Tartakower
Maciej Miszczak
Kazimierz Makarczyk
Jędrzej Hycnar
Mieczysław Najdorf
Beata Fido
Żona Rubinsteina
Weronika Dzierżyńska
Gienia
Magdalena Maścianica
Kelnerka Zosia
Beata Wnęk-Malec
Służąca Salcia
Błażej Wójcik
Konsul
Maciej Półtorak
Pułkownik
Witold Dębicki
Słodownik
Radomir Rospondek
Redaktor
Stanisław Banasiuk
Profesor
Grzegorz Palkowski
Kibic
Wiesław Kupczak
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