![]() ![]() ![]() Ironically, Bartok is imprisoned in a luxury hotel, but Franz-Josef Bohm (Albrecht Schusch) and his Gestapo colleagues easily adapt it to their savage purposes. Franz-Josef Bohm (Albrecht Schuch) is a deadly adversary, in “Chess Story.” (Film Movement) The anti-Nazi advocate is caught flat-footed by Germany’s sudden Anschluss annexation of his former nation, but he manages to sufficiently destroy his banking records before the German secret police take him into custody. The test of wills becomes a metaphorical and perhaps literal chess match in Philipp Stolzl’s “Chess Story,” based on Stefan Zweig’s novella “The Royal Game.”īartok is a respected Austrian solicitor and notary, most notably for the former nobility, whose secret numbered accounts he manages. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci), at least while his National Socialist captors hold him in solitary confinement. The game is also a pastime that sometimes blossoms into an obsession, but that is a feature rather than a problem for Dr. Chess terms like “checkmate” and “end game” lends themselves to military strategy. ![]()
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