"A tale of love, obsession ... and chess!"
Chess Fever (original title: Шахматная горячка or Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 short film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. The film incorporates actual footage of the Moscow 1925 chess tournament and features cameos by many top chess masters of the time.
José Raúl Capablanca – the World Champion
Vladimir Fogel – the boy
Anna Zemtsova – the girl
Natalya Glan
Zakhar Darevsky
Frank Marshall – himself (cameo)
Richard Réti – himself (cameo)
Carlos Torre Repetto – himself (cameo)
Frederick Yates – himself (cameo)
Ernst Grünfeld – 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)
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.
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