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Brainwashed

Drama

Brainwashed

7.1(14) 9/2/1960 1h 42m
Drama

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They 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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Top Cast

Curd Jürgens

Curd Jürgens

Werner von Basil

Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom

Irene Andreny

Hansjörg Felmy

Hansjörg Felmy

Hans Berger

Mario Adorf

Mario Adorf

Mirko Centowic

Hans Söhnker

Hans Söhnker

Bishop Ambrosse

Rudolf Forster

Rudolf Forster

Hotelmanager

Jan Hendriks

Jan Hendriks

First Officer

Albert Lieven

Albert Lieven

Hartmann

Directed by

Gerd Oswald

Production

Reviews

Aqueronte72

4/4/2022

> Considerations to prefer a suicide or, I Stefan Zweigh, hereby underline the art of imagining myself as the main cartoon character (which I will not be) of the 300 copies in the posthumous novel (which not only me, but no one else in Germany will be able to read ). We must thank Gerd Oswald for such a neat and respectful adaptation of the novel, but for ellipsing the origins of Balaam's donkey, Mr. Czentovich, and the way in which, without a trade or practical intelligence, the priest suddenly discovered the genius of chess stuck in the head of that conceited and disagreeable fool with other people; curiously becoming world champion and coinciding as a passenger with Zweigh's alter-ego, Werner von Bisal on the ocean liner. Already on the high seas, Von Bisal suddenly remembered Aljechin'

Aqueronte72

4/4/2022

> Considerations to prefer a suicide or, I Stefan Zweig, hereby underline the art of imagining myself as the main cartoon character (which I will not be) of the 300 copies in the posthumous novel (which not only me, but no one else in Germany will be able to read ). We must thank Gerd Oswald for such a neat and respectful adaptation of the novel, but for ellipsing the origins of Balaam's donkey, Mr. Czentovich, and the way in which, without a trade or practical intelligence, the priest suddenly discovered the genius of chess stuck in the head of that conceited and disagreeable fool with other people; curiously becoming world champion and coinciding as a passenger with Zweig's alter-ego, Werner von Bisal on the ocean liner. Already on the high seas, Von Bisal suddenly remembered Aljechin's

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