The Chess Player

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

• Jean DrévilleDirector
• André DoderetWriter
• Jean DrévilleWriter
• Albert GuyotWriter
• Roger VitracWriter
• Bernard ZimmerWriter
• Jean LenoirOriginal Music Composer

• Françoise RosayCatherine II
• Conrad VeidtLe baron de Kempelen
• Bernard LancretLe prince Serge Oblonsky
• Micheline FranceySonia Vorowska
• Paul CamboLe prince Boleslas Vorowsky
• Jacques GrétillatPotemkine
• Jean TémersonStanislas
• Edmonde GuyWanda Zalewska
• DelphinCast
• Manuel GaryCast
• Gaston ModotCast