Due out in a few days time is a Spanish film called
The Chess Player (EL JUGADOR DE AJEDREZ) for £12.99. Here's the marketing:
In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier’s passion for chess.
- The winner of 16 Internationally recognised festival awards, including the European Independent Film Award
- First-Ever UK DVD Release
- Starring Melina Matthews (Mama 2013)
Actor: Alejo Sauras, Marc Clotet, Melina Matthews
There are a couple of reviews on
Rotten Tomatoes, one good, one bad. The bad one had a rather strange comment along the lines that if movies smelled this one would smell like patchouli which I have never heard of but even after checking what it was on Wiki I still don't know what to make of the comment!