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The Chessplayer

Diego Padilla wins the 1934 Spanish Chess Championship and falls in love with a French journalist, Marianne Latour. Marianne encourages Diego to relocate to France with their daughter at the end of the Civil War, where Diego is soon accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS jail. Diego will attempt to survive in a difficult atmosphere in prison, courtesy of Colonel Maier's chess obsession.

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