Chess Fever

Provides a look at the early film techniques of Vsevolod Pudovkin, pioneer director and Russian film theorist. Employs light comedy in showing the effects of the International Chess Tournament in Moscow on the lives of two young lovers. Presents Pudovkin in his first directoral role.

Credits

Directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Written by
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Cast
Boris Barnet, Frank Marshall, Fedor Ozep, Anna Zemtsova, Ivan Koval-Samborskij, José Raúl Capablanca, Yakov Protazanov, Mikhail Zharov, Vladimir Fogel, Yuli Raizman, Anatoli Ktorov, Konstantin Eggert
Cinematography
Anatoli Golovnya
Complete catalog record
, A witty, satirical comedy made during the International Chess Tournament in 1925. The hero's growing obsession with chess begins to take its toll on the heroine.
, Provides a look at the early film techniques of Vsevolod Pudovkin, pioneer director and Russian film theorist. Employs light comedy in showing the effects of the International Chess Tournament in Moscow on the lives of two young lovers. Presents Pudovkin in his first directoral role., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
  2. YouTube channel: PeriscopeFilm · video ↗ — title, description, video
  3. Wikidata · Q590908 ↗ — country, credits