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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.

Status: Released
Released Date: 1925-12-21
Runtime: 24 mins
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Writer: Mykola Shpykovskyi
Spoken language: No Language
Genres: Comedy
Original title: Chess Fever
Production Companies: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Production Countries: Soviet Union

Vladimir Fogel

Anna Zemtsova

Natalya Glan

Mikhail Zharov

Anatoli Ktorov

José Raúl Capablanca

Yakov Protazanov

Yuli Raizman

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

Konstantin Eggert

Boris Barnet

Vladimir Nabokov

Fyodor Otsep

Sergei Komarov