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Chess Fever

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Chess Fever

6.3

0h 24m

1925

Synopsis

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

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Mykola Shpykovskyi

Comedy

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Cast & Crew

Vladimir Fogel

Vladimir Fogel

as The Hero

Anna Zemtsova

Anna Zemtsova

as Vera

Natalya Glan

as Vera's friend

Mikhail Zharov

Mikhail Zharov

as House Painter

Anatoli Ktorov

Anatoli Ktorov

as Tram Passenger

José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca

as Cameo The World Champion

Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Protazanov

as Chemist

Yuli Raizman

Yuli Raizman

as Chemist's Assistant

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

as Policeman

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