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
Yuli Raizman
as Chemist's Assistant
Vladimir Fogel
as The Hero
Anatoli Ktorov
as Tram Passenger
Vladimir Uralskiy
as Man in the waiting line
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
as Policeman
Konstantin Eggert
Boris Barnet
as Cameo (uncredited)
Anna Zemtsova
as Vera
Fyodor Ivanov
Vladimir Nabokov
as Cameo (uncredited)
Mikhail Zharov
as House Painter
José Raúl Capablanca
as Cameo The World Champion
Yakov Protazanov
as Chemist
