Film Screening
Chess Story (2021), dir. Philipp Stölzl | JxJ Washington Jewish Film Festival

Sun, 05/22/2022
2:15 PM Landmark’s Bethesda Row Cinema

Saturday, May 14, 8:15pm | Bethesda Row Cinema
Sunday, May 22, 2:15pm | Edlavitch DCJCC
Dir. Philipp Stölzl | 112 min.
Narrative | Austria, Germany | 2021
German with English subtitles | Mid-Atlantic Premiere

A co-presentation of JxJ and the Goethe-Institut Washington

The inspired film adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s timeless literary classic The Royal Game.

It’s 1938, and Nazis are marching through the streets of Vienna. Attorney Josef Bartok and his wife plan to escape to America, but the Gestapo get to him first. Bartok refuses to cooperate with his captors, and quickly lands in solitary confinement. The intense isolation almost breaks his spirit, until he steals an old chess book—an act that changes the course of his life, but also gradually turns into a dangerous obsession.
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