Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
Acting
Thomas Brodie-Sangster's devastating child performance.
Writing
Chess metaphors that actually land with emotional weight.
Production
Period detail that makes occupied France suffocatingly real.
Director
Giacomo Battiato
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Gregor Lämmle
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Maria von Gall
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thomas von Gall
Thierry Lhermitte
Andreas Lazik
Claire Keim
Catherine Lamiel
Dominique Pinon
Henri Lafont
Gottfried John
Thomas von Gall - grandfather
Thomas Heinze
Joachim Görtz
Ken Duken
Jürgen Müller
Giorgio Pasotti
Michele
Stephen Moyer
David Quatermain
Rufus
Prof. Bergot
Marisa Leonie Bach
Louise
Didier Bourguignon
Lorry Driver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thomas Brodie-Sangster filmed this between Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, proving his range before puberty hit.
The real French Resistance used chess codes; 'Entrusted' fictionalizes documented strategies where children carried microfilm.
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