Enigma

feature-length

documentary

(

1992

)

awards
Description

Intelligence is the power to see…

ENIGMA - Whats' on a Grandmasters' Mind probes into the world of thinking. It visualises the sources of inspiration of Grand Master Anatoly Gantwarg, five times World Champion Draughts. An associative adventure into the desert of chaos, with the soul as the one and only guide.

ENIGMA brings us to West Africa, to where old men play the game of Yote in the sand. We visit the tomb of Baba Sy, the legendary, illiterate Senegalese draughts player. We meet the man who discovered and taught him. We witness the massive worshipping of God in the heat of the African desert.

We get to know the connection between draughts, football and life…The need to forget about logic: Intuition.

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Production

Molenwiek Film

Coproduction

NOS

executive producer
Creative producer
Direction

Hillie Molenaar
Joop Van Wijk

Writer
Interviews
Research
Cast

Anatoli Gantwarg GMI
Misha Kats MI
Jean Amadou Koité
Malick Diaw MN
Reggi Kutu
Matthijs Robbens

Production design
photography

Peter Mariouw Smit
Peter de Bont
Ton Peters

sound

Hens van Rooij

Music

Patricio Wang

editing

Jan Dop

Sound design
re-recording

Jack Bol

Special thanks

Harm Wiersma GMI
Ygal Koyfman
Mamadou Sarr
Gijs Stappershoef