Chess Fever
Шахматная горячка
Release: 1925-12-21
·Runtime: 24m
·★ 6.3
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mezhrabpom-Rus
Cast
Anna Zemtsova
as Vera
Fyodor Ivanov
Vladimir Fogel
as The Hero
Anatoli Ktorov
as Tram Passenger
José Raúl Capablanca
as Cameo The World Champion
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
as Policeman
Vladimir Uralskiy
as Man in the waiting line
Mikhail Zharov
as House Painter
Yakov Protazanov
as Chemist
Yuli Raizman
as Chemist's Assistant
Konstantin Eggert
Boris Barnet
as Cameo (uncredited)
Vladimir Nabokov
as Cameo (uncredited)
