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Chess Fever

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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.

movie

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

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