Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Pawn sacrifice / Bleecker Street presents in association with MICA Entertainment ; a Material Pictures production ; produced by Gail Katz, Toby Maguire, Eduard Zwick ; screenplay by Steven Knight ; directed by Edward Zwick.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Bleeker Street Media, [2015]

Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1)

DVD-video NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief strong language, some sexual content and historical smoking.

Subjects:

Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008 -- Drama.

Chess players -- United States -- Drama.

Chess players -- Soviet Union -- Drama.

Chess -- Tournaments -- Drama.

Cold War -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.