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IDFA 1992

Enigma gedachten van een grootmeester

Enigma, What's on a Grandmaster's Mind...
Hillie Molenaar, Joop van Wijk
Netherlands
1992
54 min
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ENIGMA probes into the mystery of thinking. It visualizes the (sources of) inspiration of Grand Master Anatoli Gantwarg, five times World Champion of Draughts. An associative quest into the desert of chaos, with the soul as the one and only guide. ENIGMA takes us on the inner train ride of a man who has lost his feeling for the Russian Motherland, the feeling for 'the flag'. It tells us about strategy and tactics, character and emotions. ENIGMA takes us to West Africa, where old men play the ancient game of Yoté in the sand. We visit the tomb of Baba Sy, the legendary, illiterate Senegalese draughts-player. We meet the man who discovered and formed him. We witness the massive worshipping of God in the heat of the African desert. We get to know the conformity of draughts, football and life ... The need to forget about logic. Intuition.

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    Cinemien