'Chess Fever' film ('Shakhmatnaya goryachka', 1925) by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky
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Hi everyone,
Sit back and watch this fun Russian chess film. Don't worry even if you don't know Russian. (Because it's a silent film ha ha!)
Script: Nikolai Shpikovsky
Cast: Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Boris Barnet, José Raúl Capablanca
Though not his first film, Russian director/cinema theorist V. I. Pudovkin's 'Chess Fever' was the first to be released. Essentially a comedy, this 2-reel exercise in montage manages to make the game of chess seem thoroughly cinematic. Illustrating his theory that "The foundation of film art is editing", Pudovkin uses apparently unrelated images to fashion a smooth, well-integrated unified whole. He goes so far as to rabbet in shots of legendary chess master José Raúl Capablanca so that his film will have a 'star'.
Other grandmasters to be seen in this movie: Ernst Grünfeld, Frederick Yates, Frank Marshall, Richard Réti, Rudolf Spielmann and Carlos Torre (all playing in the 1925 Moscow International Tournament ).
Have a great chess weekend ahead.
Hi everyone,
Sit back and watch this fun Russian chess film. Don't worry even if you don't know Russian. (Because it's a silent film ha ha!)
Script: Nikolai Shpikovsky
Cast: Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Boris Barnet, José Raúl Capablanca
Though not his first film, Russian director/cinema theorist V. I. Pudovkin's 'Chess Fever' was the first to be released. Essentially a comedy, this 2-reel exercise in montage manages to make the game of chess seem thoroughly cinematic. Illustrating his theory that "The foundation of film art is editing", Pudovkin uses apparently unrelated images to fashion a smooth, well-integrated unified whole. He goes so far as to rabbet in shots of legendary chess master José Raúl Capablanca so that his film will have a 'star'.
Other grandmasters to be seen in this movie: Ernst Grünfeld, Frederick Yates, Frank Marshall, Richard Réti, Rudolf Spielmann and Carlos Torre (all playing in the 1925 Moscow International Tournament ).
Have a great chess weekend ahead.
Labels: chess film, chess movie, chess news, cool chess video, cool chess videos, russian chess movie, russian chess video
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 12:00 PM
4 Comments:
At November 4, 2011 at 12:24 PM ,
Anonymous said...
EXCELENTE
At November 4, 2011 at 12:27 PM ,
miguel said...
Fantastic even chess socks!
At November 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM ,
Alexis Cochran, New Zealand said...
No time right now. Will watch it over the weekend. Oh you have such great videos here. I already have the other ones to watch pending too. Love you chess queen. Am crazy about you. Go great in Greece. Kisses kisses and kisses.
At November 5, 2011 at 1:42 AM ,
Volkswagon said...
Absolutely awesome movie
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