"20 Moves" tells the story of the popular puzzle toy's journey to market and its global impact. In 1979, Tom Kremer discovered an unpatented puzzle game at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. Invented in Hungary in 1974 by Professor Erno Rubik as a teaching tool for his architecture students, the puzzle would become popular worldwide, played by approximately one-fifth of the global population. The film explores the cube's history – from its creation behind the Iron Curtain to its role in the collapse of communism and the rise of free market economies in Eastern Europe. It details how the cube was introduced and marketed in the West, becoming the defining fad of the 1980s. The cube came to symbolize an entire generation. "20 Moves" mirrors the cube itself with its many layers, revealing new aspects of the puzzle's history with each act.
