6.34
24 min
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.
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Vladimir Fogel | The Hero | Unowned |
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Anna Zemtsova | Vera | Unowned |
| Natalya Glan | Vera's friend | Unowned | |
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Mikhail Zharov | House Painter | Unowned |
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Anatoli Ktorov | Tram Passenger | Unowned |
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José Raúl Capablanca | Cameo The World Champion | Unowned |
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Yakov Protazanov | Chemist | Unowned |
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Yuli Raizman | Chemist's Assistant | Unowned |
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Ivan Koval-Samborskyi | Policeman | Unowned |
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Konstantin Eggert | Unowned | |
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Boris Barnet | Cameo (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Vladimir Nabokov | Cameo (uncredited) | Unowned |
| Fyodor Otsep | Game Spectator (uncredited) | Unowned | |
| Sergei Komarov | Grandfather | Unowned | |
| Zakhar Darevskiy | Unowned | ||
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Fyodor Ivanov | Unowned | |
| Ernst Grunfeld | Cameo | Unowned | |
| Frank Marshall | Cameo | Unowned | |
| Richard Reti | Cameo | Unowned | |
| Rudolph Spielmann | Cameo | Unowned | |
| Carlos Torre | Cameo | Unowned | |
| Frederick Dewhurst Yates | Cameo | Unowned | |
| Orlov-Broshat | Unowned | ||
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Vladimir Uralskiy | Man in the waiting line | Unowned |