
Keywords
- Doing Gender
- Screen: Southeast Europe
- cold war
- history
- sport
- women
Actors
- Nona Gaprindashvili
- Maia Chiburdanidze
- Nana Alexandria
- Nana Ioseliani
Director
- Tatia Skhirtladze
- Anna Khazaradze
Documentary, Independent
1h 23min
16+
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A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.
A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.
In the middle of the Cold War, four female Georgian stars revolutionized the male-dominated chess world and became icons of female emancipation.
Nona Gaprindashvili, Maia Chiburdanidze, Nana Alexandria and Nana Iosseliani lit up the eyes of almost all chess aficionados. As top players, they dominated the chess scene from the early 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
For thirty consecutive years they brought the world title to Georgia. Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman in the world to win the prestigious Grandmaster title. Then the unexpected happened - she was knocked off the throne by Maia Chiburdanidze, who was only 17.