Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

20031 h 24 min 50 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Vikram Jayanti

Production: Hal Vogel (Alliance Atlantis)André SingerAndy ThomsonNick FraserPaul Trijbits (UK Film Council)Tom Perlmutter (National Film Board of Canada)Éric Michel

An Alliance Atlantis and National Film Board of Canada production for the UK Film Council and the BBC, with the support of the National Lottery through the UK Film Council New Cinema Fund.

From the producers of Academy Award winner Bowling for Columbine comes an extraordinary feature documentary, a corporate conspiracy thriller set in the esoteric world of chess.

In May 1997, Garry Kasparov, regarded as the greatest chess player the world had ever seen, agreed to challenge Deep Blue - a hulking one-and-a-half tonne supercomputer. Played out in front of the world's media, this chess tournament and scientific experiment would stun the world.

Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Vikram Jayanti (James Elroy's Feast of Death, The Man Who Bought Mustique), Game Over takes us on a gripping cinematic odyssey into the paranoid mindscape of a legendary chess genius, as Kasparov battles to come to terms with the machine - and the men - from IBM.

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  • Sports and Leisure > CompetitionsGames and Sports
  • Technology > Computer Technology, Internet and Electronics

Credits


director
Vikram Jayanti
producer
Hal Vogel
executive producer
André Singer
Andy Thomson
Nick Fraser
Paul Trijbits
Tom Perlmutter
Éric Michel
director of photography
Maryse Alberti
editor
David G. Hill
original score composer
Rob Lane
additional photography
Joan Churchill
Eigil Bryld
steadicam operator
Erwin Landau
camera assistant
Antonio Rossi
Henrik Lyngbo
sound recordist
Brenda Ray
Tim White
Allan Barker
production manager
Gloria Morris
production co-ordinator
Amber Hunt
production assistant
Andrew Federman
unit manager
Pat Footer
production accountant
Nicky Gowan
legal & business affairs
Rachael Dudley
Richard Hanet
Guylaine Bachand
Neil Gillard
Dawn Cleaver
Jodi Miller
consulting editor
Emma Matthews
sample creation
Mike Trim
additional music programming
Mike Trim
researcher
Marguerite Holloway
archive researcher
Masha Oleneva
online editor
Andrew Mitchell
colourist
Perry Gibbs
dubbing mixer
Nigel Edwards
telecine
Todd Ao
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post-production manager
Ian Dodd
editing facilities
Headfirst
post-production facilities
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