Chess Fever

(1925)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 52 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1925

Runtime: 28 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Всеволод Пудовкин, Николай Шпиковский

Cast: Владимир Фогель, Анна Земцова, Наталья Глан, Михаил Жаров, Анатолий Кторов, Хосе Рауль Капабланка, Яков Протазанов, Юлий Райзман, Иван Коваль-Самборский, Константин Эггерт

Plot

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.