Chess Fever
Dec 21 1925
•0h 28m
•Comedy
A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.
Cast
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José Raúl Capablanca
The World Champion
Vladimir Fogel
The Hero
Anna Zemtsova
The Heroine
Natalya Glan
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