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Peter (Screenwriter) Berry
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric chess master, whose unstable childhood rendered him incapable of relating well to others, finds that chess is his only escape and solace. At an Italian resort, where he is favored to win a prestigious chess championship, he meets and falls in love with a caring woman. When a former mentor turned jealous saboteur tries to destroy his confidence, the fragile genius may lose more than just the big game.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...