The Dark Horse
DramaHistory
6.3/10
|NZ
|en
|124 min
Release Date: 2014-07-17
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Four Knights Film
User Reviews
Reno
6/10
> Something positive to focus on. It is considered as one of the best Kiwi films ever. Inspired by a real person with the severe bipolar disorder. The story centres on the character Genesis Potini, a chess prodigy. Despite his mental issue, he forms a chess club called the Eastern Knights where the underprivileged kids are trained. The film follows his own struggle, as well as his fight for oth...
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