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Chess Fever
1925, Dec 21
0h 28m
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.
Directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Written by
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Mikhail Zharov
House Painter
Sergei Komarov
Grandfather
Anatoli Ktorov
Tram Passenger
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Policeman
Vladimir Fogel
The Hero
Konstantin Eggert
Anna Zemtsova
Vera
José Raúl Capablanca
Cameo The World Champion
Natalya Glan
Vera's friend
Zakhar Darevskiy
Fyodor Ivanov
Ernst Grunfeld
Cameo
Frank Marshall
Cameo
Richard Reti
Cameo
Rudolph Spielmann
Cameo
Carlos Torre
Cameo
Frederick Dewhurst Yates
Cameo
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