Pawn Sacrifice
- IMDb link: 1596345
- IMDb rating: 7 (54,471 votes) Search
- Genres: Thriller, Drama, Biography, Sport, History
- Director: Liev Schreiber, Edward Zwick
- Cast: Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg and others
- Release date: 25 Sep 2015
- Release year: 2014
- Runtime: 115 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: chess, cold war, chess master, richard m. nixon character, island, paranoid personality disorder, epilogue, brooklyn new york city, cia central intelligence agency, reference to communism
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Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
During the Cold War chess grandmaster Bobbie Fischer takes on Boris Spassky, the Soviet world champion. Though Fischer wants a normal match against his rival the United states wants it to be seen as the Cold War played out on the chess board. All of this isn't helping the fact that Fischer is constantly dealing with paranoia. This is the world of chess like you've never seen it before.
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