Gerd Oswald
Director
Brainwashed (1960)
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
Keywords: tmdb.chess, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.pre-world-war-two, imdb.year-1938, imdb.nazi-occupied-austria, imdb.third-reich, imdb.trying-to-break-someone-down + 32 more, imdb.nazi-prisoner, imdb.psychological-torture, imdb.art-smuggler, imdb.trapped-in-a-room, imdb.nazi-officer, imdb.chess, imdb.nazi, imdb.nazi-occupation, imdb.intellectual, imdb.gestapo, imdb.ballerina, imdb.mind-game, imdb.ss-officer, imdb.love-interest, imdb.hotel-room, imdb.solitary-confinement, imdb.house-arrest, imdb.vienna-austria, imdb.brainwashing, tmdb.based-on-novel-or-book, aspectratio.1-37-1, imdb.nazi-germany, imdb.europe, imdb.austria-within-nazi-germany, imdb.1930s, imdb.interwar-period, imdb.german-occupation-of-austria, imdb.austria, imdb.nazi-occupation-of-austria, imdb.austria-under-national-socialism, imdb.persecution-of-intellectuals, imdb.anti-intellectualism
Production Companies: Roxy Film
Country: Germany
Production Country:
Germany
Languages:
German
Recommendations
Runtime: 102 min.
Released: Sept. 2, 1960
Status: Released
Certification: 12 / 13+