The Chess Player

For other uses, see Chess player (disambiguation).
For the sound film, see The Chess Player (1938 film).

The Chess Player
Le Joueur d'échecs
French language poster
Directed byRaymond Bernard
Written byRaymond Bernard
Jean-José Frappa
Based onLe Joueur d'échecs
by Henry Dupuy-Mazuel
Starring
Cinematography
  • Joseph-Louis Mundviller
  • Marc Bujard
Music byHenri Rabaud
Production
company
La Société des Films Historiques
Release date
  • 6 January 1927 (1927-01-06)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryFrance
Languagesilent
BudgetFF 6 million[1]

The Chess Player (French: Le Joueur d'échecs) is a 1927 French silent film directed by Raymond Bernard and based on a novel by Henry Dupuy-Mazuel. It is a historical drama set in the late 18th century during the Russian domination of Polish Lithuania, and elements of the plot are drawn from the story of the chess-playing automaton known as The Turk.

  1. ^ Richard Abel. French Cinema: the First Wave, 1915-1929. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. p. 140.