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Le Joueur d'échecs
Duration: 1 h 10 m | 1938
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.
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