''Me & Bobby Fischer'' is a documentary about
Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 1 ...
's last years as his old friend Saemundur Palsson gets him out of jail in
Japan and helps him settle in
Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
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The film premiered at the Green Light Films’
Bíódagar film festival in April 2009.
[Catharine Fulto, "Iceland’s ties to Recluse Anti-Semitic Chess Grandmaster: New Bobby Fischer doc examines an unlikely friendship." ''Reykjavik Grapevine''. August 5, 2009. Found a]
''Reykjavik Grapevine'' website
Accessed February 20, 2010.
Cast
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Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 1 ...
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Saemundur Palsson
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Kári Stefánsson
Kári Stefánsson (or Kari Stefansson; born 6 April 1949) is an Icelandic neurologist and founder and CEO of Reykjavik-based biopharmaceutical company deCODE genetics. In Iceland he has pioneered the use of population-scale genetics to underst ...
Festivals
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Green Light Reykjavik
See also
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List of books and documentaries by or about Bobby Fischer
Several books, films and other works about Bobby Fischer have been created. Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess prodigy who rose to prominence during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1972, Fischer defeated the Sovie ...
References
2009 films
Works about Bobby Fischer
Icelandic documentary films
2009 documentary films
Films about chess
Chess in Iceland
2009 in chess
2000s English-language films
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