Chess Fever (1925) movie
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.
Chess Fever (1925) movie
Genre: Comedy
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
Writing Credits: Nikolai Shpikovsky
Cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya
Cast:
José Raúl Capablanca – The World Champion, cameo
Vladimir Fogel as The Hero
Anna Zemtsova as The Heroine
Natalya Glan
Zakhar Darevsky
Mikhail Zharov as House Painter
Anatoli Ktorov as Tram Passenger
Yakov Protazanov as Chemist
Yuli Raizman as Chemist’s Assistant
Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Policeman
Konstantin Eggert
Ernst Grunfeld cameo
Fyodor Ivanov
Sergey Komarov as Grandfather
Frank Marshall cameo
Richard Reti cameo
Rudolph Spielmann cameo
Carlos Torre cameo
F.D. Yates cameo
Boris Barnet cameo
Vladimir Nabokov cameo
Fyodor Otsep as Game spectator
Nice video!!!
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https://youtu.be/1iKne6T0LFU
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hello fellow Danya viewers.
2:00 that guy in the middle… it had to be Alekhine or a very good immitator…
Only when she found a chess hater, she decided to love the game. That shows how much she just wanted to defy her partner’s opinion
Bobby Fischer Against the World led me here……
What music is this? I'm super intrigued!
The Cuban genius is my all-time favorite! Not only was he normal, unlike a lot of chess champions, he was also debonair.
Lection: never stop loving chess
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