The Coldest Game
Josh Mansky, a washed-up U.S. chess champion and recovering alcoholic, is thrust into the heart of the Cuban Missile Crisis when he's forced to play a high-stakes match in Cold War-era Warsaw, where every move on the board is matched by a deadly game of espionage off it.
“Times change. The stakes remain the same”
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Set in Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the story follows Josh Mansky, a troubled mathematics prodigy and former U.S. chess champion, who is recruited to participate in a high-stakes public match against the Soviet chess champion. Amid the tension of the Cold War, Mansky must also navigate a covert game of espionage unfolding in the shadows of a hostile foreign city.
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Edited by Krzysztof ArszennikShot by Pawel EdelmanScored by Lukasz TargoszDesigned by Allan Starski
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23 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Bill Pullman
as Joshua Mansky
Lotte Verbeek
as Agent Stone
James Bloor
as Agent White
Robert Wieckiewicz
as PKiN Director
Aleksey Serebryakov
as General Krutov
Corey Johnson
as Donald Novak
Nicholas Farrell
as G. Moran
Evgeniy Sidikhin
as Alexander Gavrylov
Cezary Kosinski
as John Gift
Aleksandr Lobanov
as Adjutant to Krutov
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