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.
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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-Samborskyi as Policeman
Konstantin Eggert as
Boris Barnet as Cameo (uncredited)
Vladimir Nabokov as Cameo (uncredited)
Fyodor Otsep as Game Spectator (uncredited)
Sergei Komarov as Grandfather
Zakhar Darevskiy as
Fyodor Ivanov as
Ernst Grunfeld as Cameo
Frank Marshall as Cameo
Richard Reti as Cameo
Rudolph Spielmann as Cameo
Carlos Torre as Cameo
Frederick Dewhurst Yates as Cameo
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