Chess Story

About Chess Story

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo.

Chess Story (2021) is a history thriller film directed by Philipp Stölzl. It runs 110 minutes and was released in September 2021.

Oliver Masucci appears as Dr. Josef Bartok, Albrecht Schuch as Franz-Josef Böhm, Birgit Minichmayr as Anna Bartok, and Rolf Lassgård as Owen McConnor. Written by Eldar Grigorian. It comes from ARD, ARD Degeto, and Dor Film.

Shelv files it under chess, playing chess, and world war ii. It streams on Film Movement Plus and Film Movement Plus Amazon Channel in the United States.

The Seventh Seal, Stalag 17, and Searching for Bobby Fischer make useful companions to Chess Story. It scores 6.8 out of 10 from 165 TMDB voters.