Dr. Josef Bartok
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The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide.
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942.
Mar 22, 2012 · The royal game & other stories by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942; Fowles, John, 1926-2005; Sutcliffe, Jill
Dec 3, 2021 · STUDIOCANAL International. 11.5K subscribers. 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.
Sep 23, 2021 · Chess Story: Directed by Philipp Stölzl. With Oliver Masucci, Dieter Bernhardt, Elias Gabele, Birgit Minichmayr. To withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess.
Each story has at its heart an extreme emotion, from the monomania of the man who learnt chess by memorising games from a book while a prisoner in “The Royal Game”, to the young woman’s adoring, obsessive love for her writer neighbour in “Letter from an Unknown Woman”.
But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it's clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and with the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him.
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On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passenger. The stranger's diffident manner masks his...
The Royal Game and Other Stories is a collection of five of his brilliant creative achievements, revives Zweig's art, making it once again available to a wide range of readers.
