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Title: Chess Fever (1925)
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José Raúl Capablanca | ... | The World Champion |
| Vladimir Fogel | ... | The Hero | |
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Anna Zemtsova | ... | The Heroine |
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Natalya Glan | ||
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Zakhar Darevsky | ||
| Mikhail Zharov | ... | House Painter | |
| Anatoli Ktorov | ... | Tram Passenger | |
| Yakov Protazanov | ... | Chemist | |
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Yuli Raizman | ... | Chemist's Assistant |
| Ivan Koval-Samborsky | ... | Policeman | |
| Konstantin Eggert | |||
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Ernst Grunfeld | ... | Self |
| Fyodor Ivanov | ... | (as F. Ivanov) | |
| Sergey Komarov | ... | Grandfather | |
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Frank Marshall | ... | Self |
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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. Written by Snow Leopard
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Besides José Raúl Capablanca's appearance, the tournament scenes include brief footage of actual games being played in the Moscow 1925 international tournament. Some of the leading chess masters of the era, including Richard Reti, Rudolph Spielmann, Ernst Grunfeld, Frank Marshall, Carlos Torre and F.D. Yates are shown playing their games. See more »Connections
Featured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: Az orosz és a szovjet némafilm (1989) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Country:
Soviet UnionRelease Date:
21 December 1925 (Soviet Union) See more »Also Known As:
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This is very funny and quite creative, and it's particularly enjoyable if you like to play chess. You'd never expect something this genuinely amusing from a Soviet-era film. The movie makes very good use of a simple plot idea, with a young man's "Chess Fever" causing problems for him and his fiancée, setting up a pretty good variety of gags that work quite well. If you are a chess fan, it is also fun to see the great Capablanca making a film appearance, plus shorter appearances by several other well-known players of the era. It's all good entertainment, and a movie well worth seeing.