Schachnovelle Filming Locations
Where was Schachnovelle filmed? Schachnovelle was filmed in 2 locations across Germany in the following places:
Schachnovelle Filming Locations
The district of Tempelhof is best known for the decommissioned Tempelhof Airport. Once the site of Nazi rallies and the Berlin Airlift, the airport is now a huge park with picnic areas, communal gardens and preserved runways attracting runners and cyclists. The quaint Fliegerviertel area has colorful row houses amid peaceful squares. In the south, ufaFabrik cultural center offers theater, concerts and dance.
Schachnovelle (1960)
In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.