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Chess Fever (1925)

Chess Fever (1925)

Comedy
Release Date: 1925, December 21
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Cast: Frank Marshall, Vladimir Uralskiy, Mikhail Zharov, Anatoli Ktorov, Ivan Koval-Samborskiy, Sergei Komarov, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan, José Raúl Capablanca, Ernst Grunfeld, Richard Reti

Overview:

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.