Chess Fever

Chess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка, translit. 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)
• 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)

See also

• The Three Million Trial

Footnotes

References

• Leyda, Jay (1960), Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, New York: Macmillan, OCLC 1683826 .

External links

• Chess Fever at the Internet Movie Database
• Chess Fever, version with English subtitles on YouTube
• Chess Fever, part 1 on YouTube
• Chess Fever, part 2 on YouTube