Chess Fever
1925 · 24m · N/A
Comedy
Directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin
,
Mykola Shpykovsky
Overview
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
Director and cast
- Vsevolod Pudovkin Director
- Mykola Shpykovsky Director
- Boris Barnet as Thief
- Vladimir Fogel as The Hero
- José Raúl Capablanca as The World Champion
- Anna Zemtsova as Vera
- Natalya Glan as Vera's friend
- Mikhail Zharov as House Painter
- Anatoli Ktorov as Tram Passenger
- Ernst Grunfeld as Himself
- Yakov Protazanov Cast
- F. Ivanov Cast
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