Chess Story
2021·Movie
·1h 50min·
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He turned resistance into a game
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.
WWII DramaPsychological ThrillerSolitary ConfinementChess ObsessionGestapoHistorical SettingMental EnduranceAustrian Cinema
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Directed by:
Philipp Stölzl
Written by:
Stefan Zweig, Eldar Grigorian
Produced by:
Danny Krausz, Kalle Friz, Isabel Hund
Composed by:
Ingo Ludwig Frenzel, Gunnar Voigt
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