Chess Fever (1925)
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.
Year
1925
Country
SU
Language
Russian
Release date
21 December 1925
TMDB
6.4 (52)
CineVerse
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Ratings
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Vladimir Fogel
The Hero
Anna Zemtsova
Vera
Natalya Glan
Vera's friend
Mikhail Zharov
House Painter
Anatoli Ktorov
Tram Passenger
José Raúl Capablanca
Cameo The World Champion
Yakov Protazanov
Chemist
Yuli Raizman
Chemist's Assistant
Ivan Koval-Samborskiy
Policeman
Konstantin Eggert
Boris Barnet
Cameo (uncredited)
F
Fyodor Otsep
Game Spectator (uncredited)
S
Sergei Komarov
Grandfather
Z
Zakhar Darevskiy
Fyodor Ivanov
E
Ernst Grunfeld
Cameo
F
Frank Marshall
Cameo
R
Richard Reti
Cameo
R
Rudolph Spielmann
Cameo
C
Carlos Torre
Cameo
F
Frederick Dewhurst Yates
Cameo
O
Orlov-Broshat
Vladimir Uralskiy
Man in the waiting line
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