| Description |
1 videodisc (130 min.) : color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Adapted from the novel "Daddy" by Loup Durand. |
| Credits |
Director Giacomo Battiato ; writers Giacome Battiato, Loup Durand, Nicola Lusuardi ; music by Gert Wilden ; Costume deisgner Anne de Laugardiere ; editor Scott Stevenson. |
| Performer |
Thomas Sangster, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Thierry Lhermitte, Cďric Brelet, Claire Keim, Dominique Pinon, Giorgio Pasotti, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Rufus lara de Laubadere, Sean Chapman, Stephen Moyer. |
| Summary |
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant eleven-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying ..... |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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Spy stories.
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France -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Grosvenor Park ProductionsUK Ltd.
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Le Sabre.
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Lakeshore International.
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| ISBN |
0769427588 $30.00 |
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