| Release Date: | Jan 1925 |
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| Genres: | Comedy / Short |
| Cast: | 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)) |
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.
