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.

Bill Pullman
as Joshua Mansky

Lotte Verbeek
as Agent Stone

James Bloor
as Agent White

Robert Więckiewicz
as Alfred

Aleksey Serebryakov
as Gienadij Krutow

Corey Johnson
as Donald Novak

Nicholas Farrell
as G. Moran

Evgeniy Sidikhin
as Jurij Gawryłow

Cezary Kosiński
as 'John Gift'

Aleksandr Lobanov
as Adiutant Krutowa
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What does make this espionage thriller remarkable is it's plausibility... Now, in 2020, we would never give a second thought to an international chess competition but like many others, I recall the fuss made when the world championships really did become an intellectual version of the cold war betwe...