Chess Fever (1925) December 21, 1925 • Comedy • 28m A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess. Cast & Crew Director Vsevolod Pudovkin The World Champion José Raúl Capablanca The Hero Vladimir Fogel The Heroine Anna Zemtsova House Painter Mikhail Zharov Tram Passenger Anatoli Ktorov Chemist Yakov Protazanov Chemist's Assistant Yuli Raizman Policeman Ivan Koval-Samborskyi Recommendations