Movie: Die Grünstein-Variante

Top 8 Billed Cast

Klaus Schwarzkopf
Klaus Schwarzkopf

Grieche

Fred Düren
Fred Düren

Grünstein

Rolf Hoppe
Rolf Hoppe

Gefängnisdirektor

Jörg Gudzuhn
Jörg Gudzuhn

Lodek

Arno Wyzniewski
Arno Wyzniewski

Kaminski

Rolf Ludwig
Rolf Ludwig

Garstecki

Willi Schrade
Willi Schrade

Wärter

Hubert Gleissner
Hubert Gleissner

Wärter

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".

  • Release Date

    1985-04-19

  • Average

    8

  • Rating:

    4.0 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    Deutsch
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

The Royal Game
69%

The Royal Game(de)

2021-09-23

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

Stalag 17
77%

Stalag 17(en)

1953-05-29

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

Queen of Katwe
72%

Queen of Katwe(en)

2016-09-23

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

O.G.
59%

O.G.(en)

2018-04-20

Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.

Life of a King
72%

Life of a King(en)

2013-06-22

The true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.

All Day and a Night
62%

All Day and a Night(en)

2020-05-01

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Adopt a Highway
67%

Adopt a Highway(en)

2019-11-01

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.

Seeking Justice
59%

Seeking Justice(en)

2011-09-02

After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.

This Crazy Heart
73%

This Crazy Heart(de)

2017-12-21

When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease, it’s the beginning of a wild adventure. Lenny fearlessly breaks all the rules to fulfill his young friend’s every wish.

Critical Thinking
66%

Critical Thinking(en)

2020-12-18

Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.

The Dark Horse
63%

The Dark Horse(en)

2014-07-17

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

I Am Elizabeth Smart
69%

I Am Elizabeth Smart(en)

2017-11-18

The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

My Neighbor Adolf
65%

My Neighbor Adolf(en)

2022-11-03

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.

Cadence
67%

Cadence(en)

1990-11-16

As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.

Bobby Fischer Against the World
68%

Bobby Fischer Against the World(en)

2011-06-06

The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.

The Lords of Discipline
66%

The Lords of Discipline(en)

1983-02-18

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.

The Young One
69%

The Young One(en)

1960-09-05

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Home
67%

Home(en)

2021-07-29

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

Norman
61%

Norman(en)

2010-06-11

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.

Bronson
70%

Bronson(en)

2009-03-13

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

Similar Movies

Ariel
71%

Ariel(fi)

1988-10-21

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

A Family On Edge
70%

A Family On Edge(en)

2015-12-22

"A Family On Edge" is about two brothers, Michael and Gabriel Bonds, who were thick as thieves growing up in Atlanta who protected each other by any means necessary.When a fatal mistake separates the siblings, their rock-solid relationship is forever changed. Shocking secrets from past and present create intensifying tension between the brothers who find themselves faced with a perilous choice, resulting in A Family On Edge. This highly realistic urban drama is layered with unpredictable twists and turns that appeal to an intergenerational audience. This is a must see for those love suspense, drama and action.

Birdman of Alcatraz
75%

Birdman of Alcatraz(en)

1962-07-04

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

Cool Hand Luke
77%

Cool Hand Luke(en)

1967-11-01

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

The Color Purple
77%

The Color Purple(en)

1985-12-18

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

The Docks of New York
69%

The Docks of New York(en)

1928-09-16

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Fugitive from a Prison Camp
0%

Fugitive from a Prison Camp(en)

1940-10-05

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.

Prisoners
27%

Prisoners(de)

2006-08-10

In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?

Madonnas
62%

Madonnas(de)

2007-02-11

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.

Tonny
55%

Tonny(no)

1962-01-22

Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release. We get to see his experiences in prison and his relationship with his mother, friends and girlfriend Kari.

The Fatima Buen Story
77%

The Fatima Buen Story(tl)

1994-07-27

Based on an actual case, Fatima Buen Story mixes tabloid sensationalism with paranormal symbolism and features O’ Hara’s trademark qualities: sudden violence and heroic love against a background of cinematic magic.

The Secret
64%

The Secret(fr)

1974-10-09

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?

Papillon
78%

Papillon(en)

1973-12-16

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

The Great Escape
79%

The Great Escape(en)

1963-07-03

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Kiss of Death
57%

Kiss of Death(en)

1995-04-21

Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened. The job is for Little Junior Brown, a violent and powerful villain. When things go wrong, Jimmy is left to do the time, and his whole life is turned upside-down, but if that wasn't enough, the cops won't leave Jimmy alone when he gets out... They want Little Junior Brown.

Revolver
69%

Revolver(it)

1973-09-27

An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.

Hang 'em High
68%

Hang 'em High(en)

1968-04-12

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Veer-Zaara
74%

Veer-Zaara(hi)

2004-11-12

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

Lady Vengeance
75%

Lady Vengeance(ko)

2005-07-29

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

The Sugarland Express
66%

The Sugarland Express(en)

1974-03-31

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.