

24 minutes
12/21/1925
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.

Vladimir Fogel
as The Hero

Anna Zemtsova
as Vera
Natalya Glan
as Vera's friend

Mikhail Zharov
as House Painter

Anatoli Ktorov
as Tram Passenger

José Raúl Capablanca
as Cameo The World Champion

Yakov Protazanov
as Chemist

Yuli Raizman
as Chemist's Assistant

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
as Policeman

Konstantin Eggert

Boris Barnet
as Cameo (uncredited)

Vladimir Nabokov
as Cameo (uncredited)
Fyodor Otsep
as Game Spectator (uncredited)
Sergei Komarov
as Grandfather
Zakhar Darevskiy

Fyodor Ivanov
Ernst Grunfeld
as Cameo
Frank Marshall
as Cameo
Richard Reti
as Cameo
Rudolph Spielmann
as Cameo
Carlos Torre
as Cameo
Frederick Dewhurst Yates
as Cameo
Orlov-Broshat

Vladimir Uralskiy
as Man in the waiting line