Chess Fever

Name: Chess Fever
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1925-12-21
Duration: 24 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan, Mikhail Zharov, Anatoli Ktorov

December 21, 1925
Directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin

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.