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Chess Fever is a film of genre Comedy directed by Vsevolod Poudovkine with Vladimir Fogel
Chess Fever (1925)
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Add to a movie listChess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка, Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. Chess Fever is a comedy about the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming of Mechanics of the Brain. The film combines acted parts with the actual footage from the tournament.
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The hero's (Vladimir Fogel) preoccupation with chess leads to him missing his own wedding ceremony, but the marital peace is restored with the help of the World Chess Champion, José Raúl Capablanca.Actors
Vladimir Fogel
(The Hero)
Boris Barnet
((uncredited))
Mikhail Zharov
Yakov Protazanov
(Chemist)
Anatoli Ktorov
(Tram Passenger)
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