Argentine director Gastón Solnicki has finished his Viennese trilogy with Willem Dafoe -starring “ The Souffleur .” But he’s already developing a “big-scale historical film” about his own grandfather, Polish-born chess master Miguel Najdorf.

“He was a very unique person and incredibly charismatic character whose story hasn’t yet been told. His life is one of the great 20 th -century odysseys. I was only 18 when he passed away in Marbella, over a poker table,” recalls Solnicki, who would like to shoot it “around the world.”

“He shared moments with all these iconic figures who admired him, from Kirk Douglas to Perón, from Bobby Fisher to Che Guevara. That’s my next project, more ambitious, where the personal, autobiographical, historical and political all come nicely together.”

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