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.

Details

Cast

Vladimir Fogel

Anna Zemtsova

Natalya Glan

Mikhail Zharov

Anatoli Ktorov

José Raúl Capablanca

Yakov Protazanov

Yuli Raizman

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

Konstantin Eggert