A movie : "The Luzhin defence"

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A. Luzhin & mom
A. Luzhin
Natalia
Natalia's mother
Valentinov
Turati

The Luzhin Defence" is a 2001 movie by Marleen Gorris (with Emily Watson and John Turturro).
It is a drama about a who must his first and a against him during the match of his life.
The movie is set in 1929. Luzhin arrives at an Italian to compete in a chess tournament. Luzhin meets Natalia, a Russian aristocrat. He is enchanted by her and she comes to find him fascinating -to the horror of her mother who has more noble marriage in mind.
But Luzhin encounters evil as well, in the form of Valentinov. Valentinov had taken Luzhin under his wing when Luzhin was a child prodigy, only to cruelly him. Now Valentinov is back with a plan to make sure his former pupil to win the big tournament.