Brainwashed (film)

Brainwashed original title Schachnovelle is a 1960 German drama film directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Curd Jrgens, Claire Bloom and Hansjrg Felmy. It is based on Stefan Zweigs novella The Royal Game.

During the trip, passengers ask grumpy Centowic to play a chess game, which he reluctantly agrees to. Centowics opponents are about to lose the match. However, the mysterious passenger, who accidentally joins the scene, intervenes and helps them to turn the match into a draw. Centowic is amazed to not have ever seen the stranger, who, as he says, has just had his first chess piece in his hands, at any important tournament.A flashback tells the strangers story He is Werner von Basil, an Austrian lawyer. Together with Bishop Ambrosse, he hides art treasures abroad in order to protect them from the national socialists who had just occupied Austria. Von Basil doesnt take the bishops warnings about the threat for him too seriously. On a party given by von Basil, the newly inaugurated Gestapo man, Hans Berger engages ballet dancer Irene Andreny, who is his girlfriend, to learn from von Basil where the art treasures are. When she is unsuccessful, Berger has von Basil arrested the same evening. In order to break von Basils will, Berger puts him into solitary confinement. Von Basil has all his personal belongings taken from him the only variety in his everyday routine is the guardian who provides him with food. ........

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