Schachnovelle

Jun 25 1961 N/A 1h 43m
Drama, War

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.

Plot

In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.

Written by

Stefan Zweig, Harold Medford, Gerd Oswald

Directed by

Gerd Oswald

Cast

Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany

Production Companies

Roxy Film

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
673
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA