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The Luzhin Defence is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring John Turturro and Emily Watson. The film centres on a mentally tormented chess grandmaster and the young woman he meets while competing at a world-class tournament in Italy.
8 de set. de 2000 · A 2000 film based on a Nabokov short story, about a chess genius who falls in love with a society beauty in the 1920s. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
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- Drama, Romance
- Marleen Gorris
- 2000-09-08
Set in the late 1920s, "The Luzhin Defence" tells the story of a shambling, unworldly chess Grand Master who arrives in the Italian Lakes to play the...
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- Marleen Gorris
- PG-13
- John Turturro
The Defense (also known as The Luzhin Defense; Russian: Защита Лужина, Zashchita Luzhina) is the third novel written by Vladimir Nabokov after he had immigrated to Berlin. It was first published in Russian 1930 and later in English in 1964.
- Vladimir Nabokov
- 1930
The Luzhin Defence (O Último Lance – pt: ) é um filme britânico e francês de 2000, do gênero drama, dirigido por Marleen Gorris e baseado em romance A Defesa, de Vladimir Nabokov.
Alexandre Luzhin (John Turturro) é um grande mestre do xadrez que, no final dos anos 20, chega à Itália para a disputa mais importante de sua carreira.
The Luzhin Defense. Vladimir Nabokov. 3.95. 14,031 ratings898 reviews. A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life. As he rises to the heights of grandmaster, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality as he moves inexorably towards madness.
