Archive Cinema City 2011.

Totalni gambit

Totalni gambit

Genre: Documentary
Country: Slovenia
Year: 2010
Duration: 54 min

Director: Jan Cvitkovič
Scenario: Mitja Čander, Irena Kovačević

Cast: Ludvik Bagari, Boris Kutin, Boris Spaski, Bernard Nežmah, Ivo Bajc, Aleksander Beljavski, Vojko Musil, Rajka Smokvina Korbar

Programme selection: Special Screening

Synopsis:

Documentary portrait about Albin Planinc is a film about forgotten genius. Albin Planinc spent more that 25 years in total annonimity, although was more than a decade, from late sixties to late seventies of 20th century, one of best chess players. He did not just beat the best players and participate at most elite tournaments, he was –according to one of famous sisters Polgar, chess master with biggest imagination in the history of chess. Planinc always played on mate, risking everything and winning some anthological games. If we compare chess with art, then Planinc was an artist among chess players.. In front of us there is an adventure of travel into the deep corners of the soul, where imagination and total paralyses are present.