The Coldest Game

The Coldest Game

2019 · 104 min · EN · 6.2 (271 votes)
Dir. Łukasz Kośmicki · Starring Bill Pullman, Lotte Verbeek, James Bloor, Robert Więckiewicz, Aleksey Serebryakov, Corey Johnson · Music Łukasz Targosz

Times change. The stakes remain the same

DramaThriller

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

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A chilling, atmospheric thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War. It feels like a tense chess match where every move carries immense weight, wrapped in paranoia and the suffocating atmosphere of 1960s Eastern Europe.

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