Liz Garbus

The game of chess has for centuries ensnared men’s minds in its seemingly bottomless complexities. But no one seems to have lost himself in it more completely than Bobby Fischer. From the age of seven, he devoted himself to its study completely. Bobby’s unmatched obsessive genius allowed him to singlehandedly challenge the brute force of the Soviet chess machine. He became the game’s first rock star, only to lapse into isolation, paranoia, and misanthropy. Liz Garbus’s high energy show more film recreates the excitement that surrounded Fischer’s matches and the madness that followed. Interviewees from both within and without the chess world try multiple approaches to cracking the Fischer enigma. In the end the only thing about Bobby that is certain is the ultimate fruits of his genius: a brief, momentous victory and a protracted, harrowing defeat. Plays with "Donut Shop" (dir. Alex Jablonski and Michael Totten, 5 min.) an evocative slice of life, in which Fischer's lost children keep the old master's spirit alive, all night long. Sponsored by the World Chess Hall of Fame and Museum.(DS)
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Edith Han was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a Jewish ghetto. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned home months later, she found her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman's show more identity papers, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret. (fonte: Imdb) show less