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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.
Sep 8, 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.
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.
Apr 20, 2001 · 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 match...
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 Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life.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.
May 4, 2001 · "The Luzhin Defence," based on a novella by Vladimir Nabokov, is about love, genius and madness, but it is also about life among the wealthy emigres of Europe in the years after World War I. They dress and move with elegance, their wealth preserving around them an illusion of the social order that was destroyed by the guns of August.
Set in 1929, this adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of love and obsession stars John Turturro as Alexander Luzhin, a shambling and eccentric chess Grandmaster who arrives in a North Italian lakeside resort to play the match of his career.
