Chess Fever

Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Not Rated
21 december 1925    24 mKomedie, Short
7.158%6.4
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.

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  • Vladimir FogelThe Hero
  • Anna ZemtsovaVera
  • Natalya GlanVera's friend
  • Mikhail ZharovHouse Painter
  • Anatoli KtorovTram Passenger
  • José Raúl CapablancaCameo The World Champion
  • Yakov ProtazanovChemist
  • Yuli RaizmanChemist's Assistant
  • Ivan Koval-SamborskiyPoliceman
  • Konstantin Eggert
  • Boris BarnetCameo (uncredited)
  • Fyodor OtsepGame Spectator (uncredited)
  • Sergei KomarovGrandfather
  • Zakhar Darevskiy
  • Fyodor Ivanov
  • Ernst GrunfeldCameo
  • Frank MarshallCameo
  • Richard RetiCameo
  • Rudolph SpielmannCameo
  • Carlos TorreCameo

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