Mastergame / Mesterjátszma

dir. Barnabás Tóth

Hungary

2023 / 90′ 

International Feature Film Competition

In Stefan Zweig’s adaptation of “The Royal Game”, a pair of rebels escape the Russian tanks in Budapest, in 1956. They manage to successfully board one of the last refugee trains. An exciting game of chess unfolds along the way. Almost no one and nothing is what it seems.