Monday 17 December 2018

Love and chess


Chess Fever (1925)

Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mykola Shpikovsky this film stars Vladimir Fogel and Anna Zemtsova. A young man obsessed with chess finds it getting in the way of his relationship with the woman he loves.

A fairly simple comedy looking at the Russian obsession with chess I found the ending of the film a slight disappointment but otherwise not a bad watch. Maybe not as funny as it could be the film certainly captures something of the chess fever though. Decently made and acted this is worth a watch.

3/5

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