Overview
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.
Cast
- Vladimir Fogel as The Hero
- Anna Zemtsova as Vera
- Natalya Glan as Vera's friend
- Mikhail Zharov as House Painter
- Anatoli Ktorov as Tram Passenger
- José Raúl Capablanca as Cameo The World Champion
- Yakov Protazanov as Chemist
- Yuli Raizman as Chemist's Assistant
- Ivan Koval-Samborskiy as Policeman
- Konstantin Eggert