Chess Fever (1925)
With Vladimir Fogel, José Raúl Capablanca, Boris Barnet, Mikhail Zharov, Yakov Protazanov, Yuli Raizman, Ivan Koval-Samborskij, Fedor Ozep
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Chess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка, romanized: Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. Chess Fever is a comedy about the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming of Mechanics of the Brain. The film combines acted parts with actual footage from the tournament.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
▶ Watch Chess FeverSaved films live in this browser, no account needed. See your list.
Also filed under
More from SILENT ERA




More from the 1920s
FAQ
Where can I watch Chess Fever for free?
Chess Fever streams free on MOVIE REWIND, with no ads, no account and no algorithm. Press play and it runs straight through, all 20m of it.
What year is Chess Fever from?
Chess Fever dates from 1925, directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi. On MOVIE REWIND it plays on the SILENT ERA channel.
Is Chess Fever in the public domain?
MOVIE REWIND indexes films that are in the public domain or made freely available on YouTube by their rights holders. Every title is health-checked, so if a copy is pulled it drops out of the rotation.
MOVIE REWIND is free and always will be: no ads, no account, no algorithm. It is kept running by one person, and the catalogue and all of its metadata are given away under CC0. If it showed you something worth watching, you can chip in.
Buy the archivist a coffee