Chess Fever

A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.

Comedy

José Raúl Capablanca

(The World Champion)

Vladimir Fogel

(The Hero)

Anna Zemtsova

(The Heroine)

Natalya Glan

Zakhar Darevsky

Mikhail Zharov

(House Painter)

Anatoli Ktorov

(Tram Passenger)

Yakov Protazanov

(Chemist)

Yuli Raizman

(Chemist's Assistant)

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

(Policeman)

Konstantin Eggert

Ernst Grunfeld

(Self)

Fyodor Ivanov

Sergei Komarov

(Grandfather)

Frank Marshall

(Self)

Richard Reti

(Self)

Rudolph Spielmann

(Self)

Carlos Torre

(Self)

F.D. Yates

(Self)

Boris Barnet

((uncredited))

Vladimir Nabokov

((uncredited))

Fyodor Otsep

(Game Spectator (uncredited))