Chess Fever

Chess Fever

28 mins | Comedy | Dec. 21, 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.

Chess Fever

28 mins | Comedy | Dec. 21, 1925

Chess Fever
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Mezhrabpom-Rus
Original title Шахматная горячка
Directors B. Sveshnikov, Mykola Shpykovskyi, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Writers Mykola Shpykovskyi

Cast

José Raúl Capablanca

as The World Champion

Vladimir Fogel

as The Hero

Anna Zemtsova

as The Heroine

Mikhail Zharov

as House Painter

Anatoli Ktorov

as Tram Passenger

Yakov Protazanov

as Chemist

Yuli Raizman

as Chemist's Assistant

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

as Policeman

Ernst Grunfeld

as Self

Sergei Komarov

as Grandfather

Frank Marshall

as Self

Richard Reti

as Self

Carlos Torre

as Self

F.D. Yates

as Self

Boris Barnet

as Cameo (uncredited)

Vladimir Nabokov

as Cameo (uncredited)

Fyodor Otsep

as Game Spectator (uncredited)