Chess Fever

IMDb link: 0015673
IMDb rating: 7.1 (1,584 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Short
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Cast: Natalya Glan, Vladimir Fogel, José Raúl Capablanca, Anna Zemtsova and others

Release date: 21 Dec 1925
Release year: 1925
Runtime: 20 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Keywords: chess, chess tournament, chess player, tournament, absent mindedness, thrown from a car, taxi, soviet union, snow, running late

Plot:

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancee 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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