Nikolay SHPIKOVSKY
Николай ШПИКОВСКИЙ
Nikolaï CHPIKOVSKI
Vsevolod PUDOVKIN
Всеволод ПУДОВКИН
Vsevolod POUDOVKINE
USSR, 1925, 28mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
shakhmatnaya goryachka
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Шахматная горячка

 

 Chess Fever

 La Fièvre des échecs

 
Directed by : Vsevolod PUDOVKIN (Всеволод ПУДОВКИН), Nikolay SHPIKOVSKY (Николай ШПИКОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Nikolay SHPIKOVSKY (Николай ШПИКОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Piotr BAKSHEYEV (Пётр БАКШЕЕВ)
Boris BARNET (Борис БАРНЕТ)
Konstantin EGGERT (Константин ЭГГЕРТ)
Ivan KOVAL-SAMBORSKY (Иван КОВАЛЬ-САМБОРСКИЙ)
Anatoli KTOROV (Анатолий КТОРОВ)
Fyodor OZEP (Федор ОЦЕП)
Yakov PROTAZANOV (Яков ПРОТАЗАНОВ)
Yuli RAIZMAN (Юлий РАЙЗМАН)
Anna ZEMTSOVA (Анна ЗЕМЦОВА)
Mikhail ZHAROV (Михаил ЖАРОВ)
 
Cinematography : Anatoli GOLOVNIA (Анатолий ГОЛОВНЯ)
Companies : Mejrabpom-Rous
Release Date in Russia : 21/12/1925
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Kinopoisk
Plot synopsis
A Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage.
Source : www.lib.berkeley.edu/
 
commentaries
Retour de flammes [Restauration de films / La Fièvre des échecs de Vsevolod Poudovkine], Majordome, dvdclassik.com, 2004
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sport in Russian and Soviet feature films, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- Soviet comedies, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- The Golden Age of Soviet Cinema : 1924-1930, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
- The USSR of filmmakers at the Cinémathèque française. First part: 1917-1945, Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2017
- Debut National Film Festival "Dvijenie", Omsk (Russia), 2013
- Rencontres du cinéma européen, Vannes (France), 2010
- Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone (Italy), 2010
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (kinoglaz.fr), 2005
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 1998
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