Chess Story
He turned resistance into a game.
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- Drama
- Thriller
- War
- History
Overview
1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.
Keywords
- world war ii
- playing chess
- chess
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 23, 2021
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany, Austria
- Production
- Studio Babelsberg,StudioCanal,ARD Degeto,ORF,ARD,BR,Dor Film Production Company,Walker & Worm Film,Dor Film
- Cast
- Oliver Masucci,Anton Rattinger,Luisa-Céline Gaffron,Belush Korenyi,Johannes Zeiler,Markus Schleinzer,Isa Hochgerner,Alexander Khuon,Albrecht Schuch,Heiko Köcheland 22 more
- Director
- Philipp Stölzl
- Writer
- Eldar Grigorian,Stefan Zweig
- Producer
- Philipp Worm,Tobias Walker
- Cinematography
- Thomas W. Kiennast
- Music
- Ingo Ludwig Frenzel
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt12058584