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Jul 17, 2014
124 min
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The Dark Horse (2014)

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

Category

Drama History

Country

New Zealand

Companies

Four Knights Film

Cliff Curtis

Genesis

James Rolleston

Mana

Kirk Torrance

Noble

Sia Trokenheim

Nurse

Andrew Grainger

Clive

Xavier Horan

Jedi

Roseanne Liang

Nurse

Miriama McDowell

Sandy

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