Brainwashed(Schachnovelle)
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West Germany · 1960
1h 42m
Director Gerd Oswald
Starring Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf
Genre Drama
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Werner von Basil (a Austrian intellectual) was captured by the Nazi in 1938. The 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.
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