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Chess Fever

1925 24m 6.4Movie
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.

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Vsevolod Pudovkin

Director

Mykola Shpykovskyi

Writer, Director

Top Cast

Vladimir Fogel

Vladimir Fogel

The Hero

Anna Zemtsova

Anna Zemtsova

Vera

Natalya Glan

Natalya Glan

Vera's friend

Mikhail Zharov

Mikhail Zharov

House Painter

Anatoli Ktorov

Anatoli Ktorov

Tram Passenger

José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca

Cameo The World Champion

Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Protazanov

Chemist

Yuli Raizman

Yuli Raizman

Chemist's Assistant

Ivan Koval-Samborskiy

Ivan Koval-Samborskiy

Policeman

Konstantin Eggert

Konstantin Eggert

Boris Barnet

Boris Barnet

Cameo (uncredited)

Fyodor Otsep

Game Spectator (uncredited)

Sergei Komarov

Sergei Komarov

Grandfather

Zakhar Darevskiy

Fyodor Ivanov

Fyodor Ivanov

Ernst Grunfeld

Cameo

Frank Marshall

Cameo

Richard Reti

Cameo

Rudolph Spielmann

Cameo

Carlos Torre

Cameo

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