Chess Fever
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Directed by | Vsevolod Pudovkin Nikolai Shpikovsky |
Written by | Nikolai Shpikovsky |
Cinematography | Anatoli Golovnya |
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21 December 1925 |
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28 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Silent film with Russian intertitles |
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.[1] The film combines acted parts with actual footage from the tournament.
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)
- 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)
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Leyda 1960, p. 174.
References
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Chess Fever at IMDb
- Chess Fever, version with English subtitles on YouTube
- Chess Fever, part 1 on YouTube
- Chess Fever, part 2 on YouTube
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