Chess Fever (1925)

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.

Directed by: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi

Top Billed Cast: Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan

Runtime: 24 minutes