The Coldest Game

The beginning of the sixties. With the Cuban Missile Crisis in full swing, American secret services kidnap an outstanding mathematician, Joshua Mansky. The forgotten alcohol-abusing genius is to take part in a chess duel against a Soviet master, Gawryłow, at an international tournament at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. However, the competition only serves as a cover for a game of spies. Once the allies turn out to be enemies and it is hard to know whom to trust, Mansky has to make a decisive move which is to stop the nuclear conflict. The film is the director’s feature-length debut.

Credits

Reżyseria

Łukasz Kośmicki

written by

Łukasz Kośmicki, Marcel Sawicki

director of photography

Paweł Edelman PSC

music

Łukasz Targosz

production design

Allan Starski

costume design

Ewa Gronowska

make-up

Ewa Drobiec, Agnieszka Hodowana

sound

Jarosław Bajdowski, Michał Fojcik, Bartłomiej Bogacki

edited by

Robert Gryka, Wolfgang Weigl BFS, Krzysztof Arszennik

casting by Jeremy Zimmermann, Nadia Lebik

cast

Bill Pullman, Robert Więckiewicz, Lotte Verbeek, Aleksey Serebryakov

production

Watchout Studio

produced by

Piotr Woźniak-Starak, Krzysztof Terej, Daniel Baur

co-produced by

TVN, NEXT FILM, Canal+, Big City Outdoor, The Story Lab, Poręczenia Kredytowe, Kosafilm, Galeria Olśnienia ® GO

executive producers

Justyna Pawlak, Oliver Simon

production manager

Magdalena Malisz

co-financed by

Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

distributed by

NEXT FILM

Obsada

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