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Music director
  
Roger White

Duration
  

Country
  
Soviet Union

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Screenplay
  
Nikolai Schpikowski

Writer
  
Nikolai Shpikovsky

Chess Fever movie poster

Language
  
Silent film with Russian intertitles

Director
  
Vsevolod Pudovkin Nikolai Shpikovsky

Release date
  
21 December 1925

Initial release
  
December 21, 1925 (Soviet Union)

Directors
  
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Schpikowski

Cast
  
Boris Barnet
(Thief),
José Raúl Capablanca
(The World Champion),
Zakhar Darevsky
,
Konstantin Eggert
,
Vladimir Fogel
(The Hero),
Natalya Glan

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Chess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка, Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. Chess Fever is a comedy about the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming of Mechanics of the Brain. The film combines acted parts with actual footage from the tournament.

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Chess Fever movie scenes

Shakhmatnaya goryachka chess fever


Plot

The hero's (Vladimir Fogel) preoccupation with chess leads to him missing his own wedding ceremony, but the marital peace is restored with the help of the World Chess Champion, José Raúl Capablanca.

Cast

  • José Raúl Capablanca – the World Champion
  • Vladimir Fogel – the boy
  • Anna Zemtsova – the girl
  • Natalya Glan
  • Zakhar Darevsky
  • Frank Marshall – himself (cameo)
  • Richard Réti – himself (cameo)
  • Carlos Torre Repetto – himself (cameo)
  • Frederick Yates – himself (cameo)
  • Ernst Grünfeld – himself (cameo)
  • Mikhail Zharov – house painter
  • Anatoli Ktorov – tram passenger
  • Yakov Protazanov – chemist
  • Yuli Raizman – chemist's assistant
  • Ivan Koval-Samborsky – policeman
  • Konstantin Eggert
  • Fyodor Otsep – game spectator (uncredited)
  • Sergei Komarov – grandfather (uncredited)
  • References

    Chess Fever Wikipedia
    Chess Fever IMDb Chess Fever themoviedb.org