Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

Vladimir Fogel

The Hero

Anna Zemtsova

Vera

Natalya Glan

Vera's friend

Mikhail Zharov

House Painter

Anatoli Ktorov

Tram Passenger

José Raúl Capablanca

Cameo The World Champion

Yakov Protazanov

Chemist

Yuli Raizman

Chemist's Assistant

Ivan Koval-Samborskiy

Policeman

Konstantin Eggert

Boris Barnet

Cameo (uncredited)

Fyodor Ivanov