Chess Fever
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.
Top Billed Cast
Vladimir Fogel
The Hero
Anna Zemtsova
Vera
Mikhail Zharov
House Painter
Anatoli Ktorov
Tram Passenger
José Raúl Capablanca
Cameo The World Champion
Yakov Protazanov
Chemist
Yuli Raizman
Chemist's Assistant
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Policeman
Konstantin Eggert
Boris Barnet
Cameo (uncredited)
Vladimir Nabokov
Cameo (uncredited)
