The read
It runs a compact 24m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
52 audience votes
Key crew
- Roger WhiteOriginal Music Composer
- Vsevolod PudovkinDirector
- Mykola ShpykovskyiWriter
- Mykola ShpykovskyiDirector
Cast
- Vladimir FogelThe Hero
- Anna ZemtsovaVera
- Natalya GlanVera's friend
- Mikhail ZharovHouse Painter
- Anatoli KtorovTram Passenger
- José Raúl CapablancaCameo The World Champion
- Yakov ProtazanovChemist
- Yuli RaizmanChemist's Assistant
- Ivan Koval-SamborskiyPoliceman
- Konstantin EggertCast
- Boris BarnetCameo (uncredited)
- Fyodor OtsepGame Spectator (uncredited)