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Nikolay SHPIKOVSKY
Николай ШПИКОВСКИЙ
Nikolaï CHPIKOVSKI
Vsevolod PUDOVKIN
Всеволод ПУДОВКИН
Vsevolod POUDOVKINE
USSR, 1925, 28mn
Black and white, silent, fiction
Chess Fever
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Шахматная горячка
La Fièvre des échecs
shakhmatnaya goryachka
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)
Production :
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 and bibliography
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 :
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Sport in Russian and Soviet feature films
, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
-
Soviet comedies
, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
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The Golden Age of Soviet Cinema : 1924-1930
, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
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The USSR of filmmakers at the Cinémathèque française. 1917-1945 : first and second part
, Paris (France), 2017
-
Debut National Film Festival "Dvijenie"
, Omsk (Russia), 2013
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Rencontres du cinéma européen
, Vannes (France), 2010
-
Pordenone Silent Film Festival
, Pordenone (Italy), 2010
-
Europalia Russia 2005
, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
-
Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF)
, Moscow (Russia), 2004
-
Nantes Russian Film Festival
, Nantes (France), 1998
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