Occupied vs The Great Chess Movie
Occupied has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for The Great Chess Movie). Occupied is the shorter watch at 48m compared with 1h 19m. The Great Chess Movie is the older of the two (1982 against 2022). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Occupied
The Great Chess Movie| Occupied | The Great Chess Movie | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 1982 |
| Length | 48m | 1h 19m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Albina Kovalyova | Camille Coudari, Gilles Carle |
| Main cast | Dzhafer Umerov, Dmytro Bahnenko, Lidia Biletska | Pascal Rollin, Anatoli Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Fernando Arrabal, Boris Spassky |
Synopsis
Occupied
Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.
The Great Chess Movie
In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.
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