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.

Cast

Vladimir Fogel

as The Hero

Anna Zemtsova

as Vera

Natalya Glan

as Vera's friend

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-Samborskiy

as Policeman

Konstantin Eggert

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