Chess Fever (1925) | Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin - Full 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 (Russian: Шахматная горячка, romanized: 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. The film combines acted parts with actual footage from the tournament.
Directed by: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
Written by: Nikolai Shpikovsky
Cinematography: Anatoli Golovnya
Edited by: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Music by: Roger White
Production company: Mezhrabpom-Russ
Release date: 21 December 1925
Running time: 28 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Silent film with, Russian intertitles
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