Chess Fever

24m
Comedy
6.3

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.

Cast

Vladimir Fogel
The Hero
Anna Zemtsova
Vera
Natalya Glan
Vera's friend
Mikhail Zharov
House Painter
Anatoli Ktorov
Tram Passenger
José Raúl Capablanca
Cameo The World Champion
Yakov Protazanov
Chemist
Yuli Raizman
Chemist's Assistant
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Policeman
Konstantin Eggert
Unknown
Boris Barnet
Cameo (uncredited)
Vladimir Nabokov
Cameo (uncredited)
Fyodor Otsep
Game Spectator (uncredited)
Sergei Komarov
Grandfather
Zakhar Darevskiy
Unknown
Fyodor Ivanov
Unknown
Ernst Grunfeld
Cameo
Frank Marshall
Cameo
Richard Reti
Cameo
Rudolph Spielmann
Cameo
Carlos Torre
Cameo
Frederick Dewhurst Yates
Cameo
Orlov-Broshat
Unknown
Vladimir Uralskiy
Man in the waiting line

Crew

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director, Editor
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Director, Writer
Anatoli Golovnya
Director of Photography
B. Sveshnikov
Assistant Director
Roger White
Original Music Composer

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