Arcibel's Game
El juego de Arcibel
Argentina
2004
115 Min
Color
Spanish
Arcibel (Dario Grandinetti) is a chess writer for a newspaper who’s jailed after one of his columns is mistakenly construed as a subversive attack on the dictatorial government in his fictional country of Miranda. After decades in prison, Arcibel finds himself sharing a cell with common criminal Pablo (Diego Torres). Soon, the aging inmate invents a game of war and strategy, planting the seeds of revolution in his willing young pupil.