Chess Fever

Chess Fever
Directed by	Vsevolod Pudovkin Nikolai Shpikovsky
Written by	Nikolai Shpikovsky
Cinematography	Anatoli Golovnya
Studio	Mezhrabpom-Russ
Release date(s)	21 December 1925
Running time	18 minutes (400 meters)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Silent film with Russian intertitles

Chess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка, Shahmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. Chess Fever is a comedy about Moscow 1925 chess tournament, made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming of Mechanics of the Brain^[1]. The film combines acted parts with the actual footage from the tournament.

Plot

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.

Cast

• José Raúl Capablanca - The World Champion
• Vladimir Fogel - The Boy
• Anna Zemtsova - The Girl
• Natalya Glan
• Zakhar Darevsky
• Frank Marshall - Himself (cameo)
• Mikhail Zharov - House Painter
• Anatoli Ktorov - Tram Passenger
• Yakov Protazanov - Chemist
• Yuli Raizman - Chemist's Assistant
• Ivan Koval-Samborsky - Policeman
• Konstantin Eggert
• Fyodor Otsep - Game spectator (uncredited)
• Sergei Komarov - Grandfather (uncredited)

See also

• Mechanics of the Brain
• The Three Million Trial

Footnotes

1. ^ Leyda 1960, p. 174.

References

• Leyda, Jay (1960), Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, New York: Macmillan, OCLC 1683826 .

External links

• Chess Fever at the Internet Movie Database
• Chess Fever at Google Videos (Adobe Flash video)