
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

Orlov-Broshat as

Vladimir Uralskiy as Man in the waiting line
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