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The Nazis capture an Austrian aristocrat and imprison him in solitary confinement and deprived of all intellectual stimulation. Once there, he is manipulated and interrogated in an effort to force him to reveal secret information vital to his captors. Struggling to keep his sanity, he fights back with the only means available to him–a book on chess hidden in his cell.
Director: Gerd Oswald. AKA Brainwashed
Writers: Stefan Zweig (novel), Harold Medford, Gerd Oswald, Herbert Reinecker.
Stars: Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf, Albert Bessler, Rudolf Forster, Alan Gifford, Jan Hendriks, Albert Lieven, Harald Maresch, Dietmar Schönherr, Karel Stepanek, Wolfgang Wahl, Hans Söhnker.
1960 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.
Excellent chamber piece, despite the wayward subtitles. Subtley underplaying the obvious politics of the Anschluss, the swastika a crude scrawl and the only uniform that of the treacherous Seyss-Inquart, framed the wall of his interrogators office, the films’ focus is kept on the slow erosion of the sanity of the protaganist, von Basil, under solitary arrest and deprived of all intelligent contact. His steely fight to retain his wits is achieved with a book of chess games which finds and memorises, playing the stratagems in his imagination and with arbitrary objects and shadows at his disposal in his bare room. Queens Gambit clearly owes a lot to this bitter little gem. Thankyou!