

The Coldest Game
Times change — The stakes remain the same.
Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
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- Language
- English
- chess
- cold war
- affectation
- macabre
- cuban missile crisis
- 1960s
- warsaw, poland
- math genius
- ironic
- malicious
- vindictive
- clinical
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United KingdomGB
- Digital / OTT15(Netflix)14 Jan 2020
FranceFR
- Digital / OTTNetflix8 Feb 2020
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT168 Feb 2020
NetherlandsNL
- Digital / OTT16Netflix8 Feb 2020
PolandPL
- Premiere1618 Sept 2019
- Theatrical8 Nov 2019
- Digital / OTTNetflix8 Feb 2020
SingaporeSG
- Digital / OTTNC16Netflix8 Feb 2020
South KoreaKR
- Digital / OTT198 Feb 2020
SpainES
- Digital / OTTNetflix8 Feb 2020
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The Coldest Game was released on 8 November 2019.
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CinemaSerf
3/28/2022
What does make this espionage thriller remarkable is it's plausibility... Now, in 2020, we would never give a second thought to an international chess competition but like many others, I recall the fuss made when the world championships really did become an intellectual version of the cold war between the USSR and the USA. Go back to the Cuban missile crisis, when the world was on the brink of an holocaust; and "Josh…
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