Uncovered ( La tabla de Flandes ) ( Qui a tué le chevalier (Un covered) )

Uncovered (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La tabla de Flandes
Alternate Title: Qui a tué le chevalier (Un covered)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jim McBride

Written By:
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Michael Hirst

Actors:
Kate Beckinsale ..... Julia
John Wood ..... Cesar
Sinéad Cusack ..... Menchu
Paudge Behan ..... Domenec
Peter Wingfield ..... Max
Helen McCrory ..... Lola
Michael Gough ..... Don Manuel
Art Malik ..... Alvaro
Anthony Milner ..... Inspector
James Villiers ..... Montegrifo
Edmund Moriarty ..... Male Student
Harriet Horne ..... Marisa
Jean Munne ..... Roger D'Arras
Julian Martínez ..... Duke Ferdinand
Isabel van Unen ..... Beatrix of Burgundy

Synopsis:

While restoring an old painting showing a woman and twomen playing chess young beautiful art expert Julia (Beckinsale) discovers the text'who killed the knight' underneath the paint. The owner of the painting tells her thatone of his forefathers was killed the painting might identify the murderer. When Julia's friend is killed she understands that there is more to it. She consults Domeneca chess genius who reconstructs the game from the painting. With any piece he takes somebody dies. The game becomes reality and her next move.. . could be her last!

Julia, an art restorer living in Barcelona, Spain, discovers a painted-over message on a 1471 Flemish masterpiece called La partida de ajedrez (The Chess Game) reading 'Qvis Necavit Eqvitem', written in Latin (English: 'Who killed the knight?'). With the help of her old friend and father-figure, the flamboyantly homosexual César, who lives at Casa Batlló, and Domenec, a local chess genius Julia found in Park Güell, Julia works to uncover the mystery of a 500-year-old murder. At the same time, however, Julia faces danger of her own, as several people helping her along her search are also murdered.

Based on a Novel by the author of 'The Ninth Gate' comes a chilling murder mystery starring Kate Beckinsale!

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 03 December, 2012.

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