Arcibel's Game

Arcibel writes a chess column for a newspaper. One of his columns is misread and taken as an attack on the regime. That is what puts him in prison. Inside, he invents a game to pass the time. The game is built on war and strategy. One of his cellmates later gets out and takes the game with him. Outside, it turns into the plan for a real uprising. What began as a way of passing time leaves the prison entirely. The account looks at how a game becomes a political instrument. Diego Torres and Juan Echanove are also in the cast. Darío Grandinetti takes the lead in Alberto Lecchi’s Argentine film of 2003.