Chess Fever (1925)
1925 · Silent film · 24 min · dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Comedy
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Writer
- Mykola Shpykovskyi
- Composer
- Roger White
- Cinematography
- Anatoli Golovnya
- Studio
- Mezhrabpom-Rus
- Released
- 1925-12-21
- Original title
- Шахматная горячка
- Running time
- 24 minutes
Cast & crew
Vsevolod Pudovkin Director
Vladimir Fogel
Anna Zemtsova
Natalya Glan
Mikhail Zharov
Anatoli Ktorov
José Raúl Capablanca
Yakov Protazanov
Yuli Raizman
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Chess Fever · George Ayoub161 · 2025-12-07
A Russian made comedy where everyone is obsessed with Chess except for the bride of a newlywed couple. The comedic circumstances are very funny There is a possible suicide leading to a new enlightenment and acceptance. The film is less than :30 minutes and well worth watching.
