Werner von Basil (een Oostenrijkse intellectueel) werd in 1938 door de nazi's gevangengenomen. Ze willen hem breken om smokkel te bekennen. Zonder enige geestelijke voeding is het enige dat zijn geest bezighoudt een oud tactiek boek voor schaken.
Nee, helaas is Schachnovelle nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Gerd Oswald | Director |
| Production | Luggi Waldleitner | Producer |
| Sound | Hans-Martin Majewski | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Günther Senftleben | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Stefan Zweig | Novel |
| Writing | Harold Medford | Writer |
| Writing | Gerd Oswald | Writer |
| Editing | K.M. Eckstein | Editor |
| Writing | Herbert Reinecker | Writer |
| Art | Wolf Englert | Production Design |
| Art | Ernst Richter | Production Design |
| Camera | Franz Hofer | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Jochen Wiedermann | Assistant Director |
| Production | Fritz Anton | Unit Manager |
| Production | Willy Schöne | Unit Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ursula Stutz | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Franz Mayrhofer | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gerda Scholz-Grosse | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Rudolf Teschner | Technical Advisor |
| Editing | Barbara Riedel | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Bernhard Reicherts | Sound |
| Production | Johannes J. Frank | Production Manager |
