The film received financial support from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin-Branderburg, German Federal Film Board, German Federal Film Fund, Bayerischer Bankenfonds, FISA – Filmstandort Austria, ORF, Austrian Film Institute, and Vienna Film Fund. Germany’s Walker+Worm Film produces Chess Story in co-production with Austrian company Dor Film and Studiocanal Film. The film will open in Germany on September 23. Oliver Masucci, who starred in When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and Look Who’s Back, stars as Bartok, alongside Birgit Minichmayr as his wife Anna, and Albrecht Schuch as Gestapo head, Böhm. When he refuses, he is condemned to solitary confinement and discovers a book about chess which helps him endure the hardship. Josef Bartok, a lawyer who recalls on a cruise his prior torture and imprisonment by the Nazis in Vienna.Īfter Austria is taken over by the Germans in 1938, Bartok and his wife attempt to flee before he is captured and interrogated by the Gestapo, who order him to reveal secrets about the assets of Austrian nobility. Source: Studiocanal/ Walker + Worm Film /Julia Terjungįilm Movement has picked up all North American rights from Studiocanal to Philipp Stölzl’s upcoming wartime drama Chess Story, which will be released internationally as The Royal Game.Įldar Grigorian adapted the screenplay from Stefan Zweig’s novella of the same name about Dr.
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