Black and White Like Day and Night

A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that capitalism is preferable to socialism.

• Wolfgang PetersenDirector
• Klaus DoldingerOriginal Music Composer
• Jochen WedegärtnerScreenplay
• Karl Heinz WillschreiScreenplay

• Bruno GanzThomas Rosemund
• Gila von WeitershausenMarie Rosemund
• Ljuba TadićStefan Koruga
• Gudrun VaupelMutter Rosemund
• Alexander HegarthVater Rosemund
• Joachim WichmannGrünfeld
• René DeltgenLindford
• Alexis von HagemeisterWilke
• Markus HelisThomas als Kind
• Elke SchuesslerMarie als Kind
• Eberhard StanjekModerator
• Annemarie WendlÄrztin