Chess Story

Chess Story (2021)

He turned resistance into a game

TMDb

7.0

23/09/2021 • 1h 50m
original-title

Schachnovelle

status

Released

production-companies

Walker & Worm Film

Dor Film

BR

ORF

StudioCanal

Studio Babelsberg

ARD

ARD Degeto

original-language

German

budget

-

revenue

-

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.

production-countries

Austria

Germany

spoken-languages

German

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