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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...
Synopsis. 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.
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Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci) is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo.
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Jan 13, 2023 · Dr. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci) is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts in order to fund the Nazi r... Read More.
Jan 8, 2023 · Cast: Oliver Masucci, Rolf Lassgård, Albrecht Schuch, Birgit Minichmayr, Moritz von Treuenfels Director: Philipp Stölzl Screenwriter: Eldar Grigorian Distributor: Film Movement Running Time: 110 min Rating: NR Year: 2021 Buy: Video. If you can, please consider supporting Slant Magazine.
Chess Story is a film directed by Philipp Stölzl with Oliver Masucci, Rolf Lassgård, Albrecht Schuch, Birgit Minichmayr .... Year: 2021. Original title: Schachnovelle.
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the last work of the Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his death in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok ...
