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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Vladimir FogelThe Hero
Anna ZemtsovaVera
Natalya GlanVera's friend
Mikhail ZharovHouse Painter
Anatoli KtorovTram Passenger
José Raúl CapablancaCameo The World Champion
Yakov ProtazanovChemist
Yuli RaizmanChemist's Assistant
Ivan Koval-SamborskiyPoliceman
Konstantin Eggert
Boris BarnetCameo (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Editor
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Original Music Composer
- Roger White
- Director
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Writer
- Mykola Shpykovskyi
- Director of Photography
- Anatoli Golovnya
- Director
- Mykola Shpykovskyi
- Producer
- Moisey Aleynikov