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Brainwashed

6.7

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Original title

Schachnovelle

Year

1960

Running time

103 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

Gerd Oswald

Screenwriter

Gerd Oswald, Harold Medford. Novel: Stefan Zweig

Cast

Music

Hans-Martin Majewski

Cinematography

Günther Senftleben (B&W)

Producer

Roxy Film

Genre

Drama | Chess. 1930s. Psychological Drama. Nazism

Movie Groups

Stefan Zweig Adaptations

Synopsis

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. Based on Stefan Zweig's short novel "The Royal Game and Other Stories."

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Brainwashed

1960

Gerd Oswald

6.7

(201)