Director
Vsevolod Poedovkin
Composer
Roger White
Cast
José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova
Edition 1986
28'
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1925
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Comedy, Short
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Dialogue:
Russian
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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Credits
Directors
Vsevolod Poedovkin
Co-director
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Composers
Roger White
Cast
José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova
Scenario
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Director of Photography
Antoli Golovnya
Editors
Vsevolod Poedovkin
More info
Dialogue
Russian
Countries of production
Russia
Year
1925