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
Anna Zemtsova
Natalya Glan
Mikhail Zharov
Anatoli Ktorov
José Raúl Capablanca
Yakov Protazanov
Yuli Raizman
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Konstantin Eggert
Boris Barnet
Vladimir Nabokov
Fyodor Otsep
Sergei Komarov
Zakhar Darevskiy
Fyodor Ivanov
Ernst Grunfeld
Frank Marshall
Richard Reti
Rudolph Spielmann
Carlos Torre
Frederick Dewhurst Yates
Orlov-Broshat
Vladimir Uralskiy