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.
Release Date: 1925-12-21
Comedy
(48 votes)

Casts

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

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