Stefan Zweig: Chess Novella

Dr. Heirich Kleibert was a prisoner of the notorious Hermann Spitz in Vienna's Hotel Metropol during the Second World War. He survived his stay in solitary confinement thanks to a book of analyses of chess games by world chess players, which he learned by heart. But the lingering spectre of chess haunts him even after the war. On an ocean liner, he meets the world-famous chess player Chentovich, who is known to have been a friend of the Gestapo commander on trial who was investigating Heirich at the Gestapo. Heirich accepts the challenge to play his first real chess game - it is his revenge for the torture. Starring the masterful Eduard Cupák.