Overview:
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.| Original Title: | Schachnovelle |
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| Status: | Released (1960-09-02) |
| Awards: | 1 nomination total |
| Screen: | Stefan Zweig, Harold Medford, Gerd Oswald |
| Productions: | Roxy Film |
| Production Countries: | Germany |
| Spoken Languages: | Deutsch |
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- 10459: Curd Jürgens - Werner von Basil
- 29545: Claire Bloom - Irene Andreny
- 45524: Hansjörg Felmy - Hans Berger
- 10254: Mario Adorf - Mirko Centowic
- 18546: Hans Söhnker - Bishop Ambrosse
- 37675: Rudolf Forster - Hotelmanager
- 18537: Jan Hendriks - First Officer
Crews
- 8626: Gerd Oswald - Director - Directing
- 4527: Luggi Waldleitner - Producer - Production
- 37669: Hans-Martin Majewski - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 1173888: K.M. Eckstein - Editor - Editing
- 14354: Stefan Zweig - Novel - Writing
- 37879: Günther Senftleben - Director of Photography - Camera
- 115845: Harold Medford - Writer - Writing
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> Considerations to prefer a suicide or, I Stefan Zweigh, hereby underline the art of imagining myself as the main cartoon character (which I will not be) of the 300 copies in the posthumous novel (which not only me, but no one else in Germany will be able to read ). We must thank Ge ....
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Review text:
> Considerations to prefer a suicide or, I Stefan Zweig, hereby underline the art of imagining myself as the main cartoon character (which I will not be) of the 300 copies in the posthumous novel (which not only me, but no one else in Germany will be able to read ). We must thank Ger ....
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