The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery Tartakower, Mieczyslaw Najdorf, Paulin Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk. They battle to win the trophy as well as dealing with the mental illness of Rubinstein and the outbreak of World War II. The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.
During World War II, a Polish food server at a luxury German hotel tempts fate as he romances local women while hiding his Jewish identity.
Parents of the 19-year-old Nina and 9-year-old Baśka go abroad. The older girl has to take care of her younger sister which leads to both comic and dramatic situations. The situation begins to overwhelm the main protagonist who loses control over her world: school, trainings and friends. The story of the sisters is a story of responsibility, everyday challenge, dreams and sisterhood relations, sometimes hard. The film is a debut of the director.
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