Director
Marleen Gorris
Composer
Alexandre Desplat
Cast
John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James
Edition 2000
109'
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2000
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Drama, Romance
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Dialogue:
Italian, English
Set in the late 1920s, ‘The Luzhin Defence’ tells the story of a shambling, unwordly chess Grand Master who arrives in the Italian Lakes to play the match of his life and unexpectedly finds the love of his life. Discovering his prodigious talent in boyhood overshadowed by his parents’ failing marriage, Luzhin’s lyrical passion for chess has become his refuge and rendered the real world a phantom. Already matched up by her family to the very suitable Comte de Stassard, when Natalia meets Luzhin she is drawn to the erratic genius and offers him a glimpse outside of his chess obsession. But it is a world he is not equipped to deal with, and his two worlds collide to tragic effect.
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Credits
Directors
Marleen Gorris
Composers
Alexandre Desplat
Cast
John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James
Scenario
Vladimir Nabokov, Peter Berry
Director of Photography
Bernard Lutic
Editors
Michiel Reichwein
Producers
Louis Becker, Stephen Evans, Philippe Guez
More info
Dialogue
Italian, English
Countries of production
United Kingdom, France
Screenplay based on
"The Luzhin Defense" (Vladimir Nabokov)
Year
2000