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Chess Fever
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Chess Fever

Dec 21, 1925
0h 28m
★ 6.3

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Mezhrabpom-Rus

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Cast

Vladimir Fogel

The Hero

Vladimir Fogel

Anna Zemtsova

Vera

Anna Zemtsova

Natalya Glan

Vera's friend

Natalya Glan

Mikhail Zharov

House Painter

Mikhail Zharov

Anatoli Ktorov

Tram Passenger

Anatoli Ktorov

José Raúl Capablanca

Cameo The World Champion

José Raúl Capablanca

Yakov Protazanov

Chemist

Yakov Protazanov

Yuli Raizman

Chemist's Assistant

Yuli Raizman

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

Policeman

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

Konstantin Eggert

Konstantin Eggert

Boris Barnet

Cameo (uncredited)

Boris Barnet

Vladimir Nabokov

Cameo (uncredited)

Vladimir Nabokov