''Fool's Mate'' (german: Zugzwang) is a 1989 West German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

by the director

Mathieu Carrière Mathieu Carrière (; born 2 August 1950) is a German actor. Life Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's fi ...

. The film was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films ...

section at the

1989 Cannes Film Festival The 42nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 23 May 1989. The Palme d'Or went to '' Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' by Steven Soderbergh. The festival opened with '' New York Stories'', anthology film directed by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Copp ...

Cast

Victoria Tennant Victoria Tennant (born 30 September 1950) is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries '' The Winds of War'' and '' War and Remembrance'', in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela T ...

as Alice Gordon * Stuart Wilson as Nikos Mitradis * as Lucas Tillman *

María Barranco María de los Remedios Barranco García (born 11 June 1961) better known as María Barranco is a Spanish actress, who has won two Goya Awards for Best Supporting Actress. Biography María de los Remedios Barranco García was born on 11 June ...

as Teresa *

Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Che ...

as Chess player (actual two-time

World Chess Champion The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who has held the title since 2013. The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match ...

) * Alexandar Rasic as Alex * Clayton George as Clarence White *

Mareike Carrière Mareike Ann Carrière (26 July 1954 – 17 March 2014) was a German actress, spokesperson and translator. She was perhaps best known for her television show appearances. She was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. At the age of ...

as Judy Miller *

Peter Sattmann Peter Sattmann (born 26 December 1947 in Zwickau) is a German actor and musician. Biography In 1957, Sattmann moved with his parents, Gerda and Ferdinand Sattmann, from Zwickau to Friedrichshafen, where he played in a band when he was twelve ye ...

as Häusermann *

Harvey Friedman __NOTOC__ Harvey Friedman (born 23 September 1948)Handbook of Philosophical Logic, , p. 38 is an American mathematical logician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He has worked on reverse mathematics, a project intended to derive the ax ...

as Blind Chessplayer *

as Herbert *

Harry Baer Harry Baer (born Harry Zöttl on 27 September 1947) is a German actor, producer and author, best known for his work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also been credited as Harry Bär. Life Harry Baer began his career in Munich when h ...

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* 1989 films 1989 drama films West German films German drama films 1980s English-language films English-language German films 1980s German-language films Films directed by Mathieu Carrière Films about chess Gambling films 1980s German films {{1980s-Germany-film-stub