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19 April 1985 (West Germany)
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intriguing chess-as-metaphor movie
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(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Fred Düren | ... | Grünstein |
| Klaus Schwarzkopf | ... | Spiros, Grieche |
| Jörg Gudzuhn | ... | Lodeck |
| Rolf Hoppe | ... | Gefängnisdirektor |
| Arno Wyzniewski | ... | Kaminski |
| Rolf Ludwig | ... | Garstecki |
| Willi Schrade | ... | Wärter |
| Hubert Gleissner | ... | Wärter |
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| Bernhard Wicki | |||
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| Wolfgang Kohlhaase | radioplay and | |
| Ludwig Turek | stories | |
| Wolfgang Kohlhaase | (screenplay) and | |
| Bernhard Wicki | (screenplay) | |
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| Günther Fischer | (as Günter Fischer) | ||
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| Edward Klosinski | |||
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| Tanja Schmidbauer | |||
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| Alfred Hirschmeier | |||
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| Christiane Dorst | |||
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| Lilo Pleimes | .... | production manager | |
| Karl-Heinz Rüsike | .... | unit manager | |
| Hartwig Schmidt | .... | executive in charge of production | |
| Myrian Ulbrich | .... | unit manager (as Myriam Ulbrich) | |
| Giselher Venzke | .... | production manager | |
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| Jörg Foth | .... | assistant director | |
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| Dietmar Scheer | .... | property master | |
| Karl-Heinz Zastrow | .... | property master | |
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| Michael Gehr | .... | assistant sound | |
| Dieter Schwarz | .... | sound mixer | |
| Klaus Tolstorf | .... | sound | |
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| Günter Sahr | .... | assistant camera | |
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| Marcel Manoury | .... | assistant costume designer | |
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| Gudrun Kieckheim | .... | assistant editor | |
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Three prisoners in a pre-World War Two French jail occupy the long hours before their courtroom trials, each after his own fashion: the young German sailor Lodeck teaches chess to the elderly Jew Grünstein, while their simpleminded Greek cellmate daydreams aloud about being Kaiser Wilhelm's personal chef. Showing more patience than aptitude, the novice Grünstein unwittingly stumbles onto a foolproof chess strategy, the secret of which will elude a mystified Lodeck for the rest of his life. It may play like theater, but it's good theater, written and directed with humor and sympathy and graced by a trio of fine performances.