Chess Fever(Шахматная горячка)
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Soviet Union · 1925
28m
Director Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Starring José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan
Genre Comedy
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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.
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