Movielogr
Chess Fever (1925)
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
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.
Length 24 minutes
Actors
Vladimir Fogel | Anna Zemtsova | Natalya Glan | Mikhail Zharov | Anatoli Ktorov | José Raúl Capablanca | Yakov Protazanov | Yuli Raizman | Ivan Koval-Samborsky | Konstantin Eggert | Boris Barnet | Vladimir Nabokov | Fyodor Otsep | Sergei Komarov | Zakhar Darevsky | Fyodor Ivanov | Ernst Grunfeld | Frank Marshall | Richard Reti | Rudolph Spielmann | Carlos Torre | F.D. Yates | Orlov-Broshat | Vladimir Uralskiy