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Rated 5/5 Stars • 04/23/23. Chess story or the Royal Game is a masterpiece comprising with a truly wonderful storyline. Sufficient amount of visual effects beautify the Bartok's odyssey ...
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Jan 8, 2023 · Chess Story Review: Stefan Zweig Adaptation Sheds Cold Light on Historical Trauma. Chess Story craftily melds the genres of period drama and psychological thriller. by William Repass. January 8, 2023. 1. Photo: Film Movement. Chess doesn’t lend itself to the restless medium of action and spectacle that cinema is prone to.
Jan 19, 2023 · But here, director Stölzl and screenwriter Eldar Grigorian, in addition to adding several characters not found in previous versions, seize upon the book’s surreal underpinnings and weave them...
Jan 13, 2023 · Jan 19, 2023. Although the blandly nondescript title doesn’t exactly suggest the promise of deep intrigue, Philipp Stölzl’s Chess Story masterfully confounds expectations as a tautly calibrated, intricately constructed Chinese puzzle of a period drama set during Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria. Read More.
Jul 1, 2021 · Eldar Grigorian adapted the screenplay from Stefan Zweig’s novella of the same name about Dr. Josef Bartok, a lawyer who recalls on a cruise his prior torture and imprisonment by the Nazis in...
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Critics' reviews "'Schachnovelle' masterfully confounds expectations as a tautly calibrated, intricately constructed Chinese puzzle of a period drama set during Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria" Michael Rechtshaffen : Los Angeles Times
