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Home > Posters > THE CHESS PLAYER (Le joueur d'échecs) (1927) - Swedish Poster
THE CHESS PLAYER (Le joueur d'échecs) (1927) - Swedish Poster
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Item Number: P-CHESSPLYR-SWE
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Vintage original 27 x 40 in. (68.6 x 101.6 cm.) Swedish poster, stone lithograph, linen-backed, very fine condition.
Produced in France in 1927 and directed by Raymond Bernard, The Chess Player is an extraordinary silent film which has been meticulously restored by film historian Kevin Brownlow. Like Abel Gance's Napoleon, The Chess Player is an epic set in 1776 Poland and revolves around the people of Poland's revolt against the occupying Russians. This beautiful original release stone lithograph Swedish poster features a large stylized image of the film's lead characters, Boleslas (Pierre Blanchar) and Sophie (Edith Jehanne), portrayed above a scene depicting the revolution that the couple are fighting for. This poster was originally unfolded and has been professionally linen-backed with no restoration whatsoever, as it was in near-pristine condition when we acquired it.
The Chess Player (Le Jouer D'Echecs) is based on an old European fable about a despotic king who came to grief via his obsession with a mechanical chess-playing machine. For the purposes of this film, the fable is incorporated in an inspirational story about a young, courageous Polish woman, a patriot in the Joan of Arc mold. The action takes place during the reign of Czarish Catherine II, when Poland was under the thumb of the Russians. The film's dramatic highlight was one of the most astonishing sequences in all of French cinema: On the verge of madness because her beloved Polish army is being mercilessly slaughtered by the Russians, the heroine sits down at her piano and begins playing maniacally -- whereupon she hallucinates that the Poles have won the battle and are marching homeward in triumph. Filmed in 1927, The Chess Player was released in the U.S. three years later.
The Chess Player (Le joueur d'échecs); Société des Films Historiques (France); 1927; dir: Raymond Bernard; cast: Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne.
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