Chess Fever (1925)

Chess Fever

1925

Comedy

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.

Credits

Director

Mykola Shpykovskyi

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast

Anatoli Ktorov as Tram Passenger

Anna Zemtsova as Vera

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi as Policeman

José Raúl Capablanca as Cameo The World Champion

Konstantin Eggert

Mikhail Zharov as House Painter

Natalya Glan as Vera's friend