Chess Fever

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.

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi

Cast: Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan, Mikhail Zharov, Anatoli Ktorov, José Raúl Capablanca, Yakov Protazanov, Yuli Raizman

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.