In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress..


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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Raymond Bernard

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Henry Dupuis-Mazuel, Jean-José Frappa, Raymond Bernard
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