Chess Fever, part 1

http://www.webkommunikasjon.no/Info/PudovkinChessFever.htm
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Chess Fever (1925) Russian title: Shakhmatnaya goryachka.

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. (IMDB.com)

Credits according to IMDB:
Boris Barnet ... Thief
José Raúl Capablanca ... The World Champion
Zakhar Darevsky
Konstantin Eggert ...
Vladimir Fogel ... The Hero
Natalya Glan
Ernst Grunfeld ... Himself
F. Ivanov ... ...
Sergei Komarov ... Grandfather
Ivan Koval-Samborsky ... Policeman
Anatoli Ktorov ... Tram Passenger
Frank Marshall ... Himself
Yakov Protazanov ... Chemist
Yuli Raizman ... Chemist's Assistant
Richard Reti ... Himself
Rudolph Spielmann ... Himself
Carlos Torre ... Himself
F.D. Yates ... Himself
Anna Zemtsova ... The Heroine
Mikhail Zharov ... House Painter
Fyodor Otsep ... Game spectator (uncredited)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• chess
• fever
• pudovkin
• Shakhmatnaya
• goryachka
• silent
• movie
• montage

[TVC17]

just finding this movie was great...

[ebayer201]

Truly a delight!

[Katrixize]

All that is good in Chess :)

[Littlemisshavoc]

Does anyone know where I can watch this with english subtitles online?

[jalal150]

what do miss south carolina's boobs have to do with chess??

[SongsofInnocence]

Am I right in thinking this is the Moscow 1925 tournament? Was that the first Russian Championship tournament?

[yournotmydad]

very cool

[essslj]

The cats!

[jkor9]

Fantastic!

[gutfire]

Where can I find this music?

[alexbakshaev]

This is amazing, I shall have to watch the rest now!

[schusterlehrling]

@borjannemanja

Lol.

He already fled from the Soviet Union and was an "unperson" at that time...