1925 · comedy · silent · short
Chess Fever
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi24m1925
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.
Our read: Chess Fever (1925) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · silent · short entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / silent, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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