Brainwashed (1960)

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Country: West Germany
Genres: Drama, Sport, War
Release: 1961-06-25
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writers: Stefan Zweig , Harold Medford , Gerd Oswald , Herbert Reinecker
Language: German
Stars: Curd Jürgens , Claire Bloom , Hansjörg Felmy , Mario Adorf , Albert Bessler , Rudolf Forster , Alan Gifford , Jan Hendriks , Albert Lieven , Harald Maresch
Runtime: 102 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: Juego de reyes (Spain) , Novela o šahu , Le joueur d'échecs (France, French Republic) , Gestapo Zindanlarında (Turkey) , Шахматна новела (Ukraine) , Sakknovella (Hungary) , Até o Último Obstáculo (Brazil) , Jaque a la locura (Mexico) , Högt spel för friheten (Sweden) , Scacco alla follia (Italy) , Brainwashed (United States of America) , Three Moves to Freedom (United Kingdom) , Schachnovelle , The Royal Game , Schachnovelle , O aihmalotos den milise (Greece) , O Jogador de Xadrez (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Viimeinen siirto vapauteen (Finland) , Et spil om livet (Denmark)
Plot: In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
IMDB:tt0054272