Chess Fever
Trailer: Chess Fever
Year: 1925
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Cast: José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan, Zakhar Darevsky, Mikhail Zharov
Crew: Vsevolod Pudovkin (Editor), Roger White (Original Music Composer), Vsevolod Pudovkin (Director), Mykola Shpykovskyi (Writer), B. Sveshnikov (Assistant Director), Anatoli Golovnya (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 28 minutes
Release: Dec 21, 1925
IMDb: 6.40/10 by 47 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Soviet Union
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

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