CHAKHMATNAIA GORIATCHKA
Year:
1925
Genre:
Comedy
Production Country:
USSR
Directed by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin / Nikolai Shpikovsky
Featuring Vladimir Fogel / Anna Zemtsova / José-Raoul Capablanca
Featuring Vladimir Fogel / Anna Zemtsova / José-Raoul Capablanca
A young chess fanatic misses his wedding appointment, and his fiancée ends their engagement. Separately, they decide on suicide, but the chemist plays a trick on Vera, and she too is drawn into the world of chess, whereupon she is reunited with her fiancé.
Cast & credits
Cast
- the chess fanatic Vladimir Fogel
- Vera Anna Zemtsova
- chess champion José-Raoul Capablanca
- policeman Ivan Kobal-samborski
- offending tram-passenger Anatoly Ktorov
- Vera's grandfather S. Komarov
- house painter Mikhail Zharov
- chemist Yakov Protazanov
- chemist's assistant Yuli Raizman
- thief Boris Barnet
- himself P. Bakcheev
- himself Zakhar Darevski
- himself F. Ivanov
- herself Natalie Glan
- himself Konstantin Eggert
- himself Torre
- himself Marshall
- himself Ilyin-zhenevsky
- himself Gotgilf
- himself Reti
- himself Yates
- himself Grünfeld
- himself Spielmann
Credits
Direction
- Director Vsevolod I. Pudovkin
- Director Nikolai Shpikovsky
- Assistant Director Boris Sveshnikov
Production
- Production Company Mezhrabpom-Russ
Writing
- Screenplay Nikolai Shpikovsky
Photography
- Photography Anatoli Golovnya
Editing
- Editor Vsevolod I. Pudovkin