Oscar winner about a chess tournament between an ailing Russian champ (Michel Piccoli) and his young challenger (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West five years earlier. Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann. Puhl: Bernhard Wicki. Felton: Wojtek Pszoniak. Miller: J.H. Anglade. Tac-Tac: Daniel Olbrychski. Directed by Richard Dembo.