''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 ...

. 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

* Saemundur Palsson *

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

* Green Light Reykjavik

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 {{Iceland-film-stub

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