Overview

The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery Tartakower, Mieczyslaw Najdorf, Paulin Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk. They battle to win the trophy as well as dealing with the mental illness of Rubinstein and the outbreak of World War II. The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.

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Cast

Jan Wieczorkowski

Dawid Przepiórka

Wojciech Mecwaldowski

Akiba Rubinstein

Jacek Feliks Knap

Ksawery Tartakower

Maciej Miszczak

Kazimierz Makarczyk

Jędrzej Hycnar

Mieczysław Najdorf

Beata Fido

Żona Rubinsteina

Weronika Dzierżyńska

Gienia

Beata Wnęk-Malec

Służąca Salcia

Błażej Wójcik

Konsul

Maciej Półtorak

Pułkownik

Witold Dębicki

Słodownik

Radomir Rospondek

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