Schachnovelle

A lawyer arrested by the National Socialists takes refuge in the world of chess in order to escape the psychological torture of the Gestapo.

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film
Financing Minority coproduction
Production DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Format DCP, 111 Min
Release 24.09.2021
Distribution Constantin/Studio Canal
Admissions 41.603
DVD and VoD Release 24.03.2022
Pay TV Release 24.09.2022
Free TV Release 24.03.2023
Funding Film Institute 458.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs 19 %
Share of total production costs 6 %
Television investment 400.000 €
Co-production Walker + Worm Film, STUDIOCANAL FILM, ARD Degeto, BR
International funding FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds,

sowie unter Der Mitwirkung von StUDIOCANAL FILM; ARD DARD Degeto, BR

Script Eldar Grigorian, Philipp Stölzl
Director Philipp Stölzl
DOP Thomas W. Kiennast
Editor Sven Budelmann
Sound engineer Gunnar Voigt
Costume design Tanja Hausner
Set design Matthias Müsse
Music Ingo Ludwig Frenzel
Cast Oliver Masucci (Dr. Josef Bartok), Birgit Minichmayr (Anna Bartok), Albrecht Schuch (Franz-Josef Böhm), Rolf Lassgard (Owen McConnor), Andreas Lust (Johann Prantl)
Production manager Stephanie Wagner
Funding institutions Austria Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria, Filmfonds Wien
Television investment ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), DEGETO
Film location Vienna, Germany
Shooting time December 2019 - March 2020
Days of shooting 33
Start of shooting 03.12.2019
Completion Winter 2020/2021
Producer Austria Daniel Krausz