"A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess."
José Raúl Capablanca
as The World Champion
Vladimir Fogel
as The Hero
Anna Zemtsova
as The Heroine
Natalya Glan
as
Zakhar Darevskiy
Mikhail Zharov
as House Painter
Anatoli Ktorov
as Tram Passenger
Yakov Protazanov
as Chemist
Yuli Raizman
as Chemist's Assistant
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
as Policeman
Konstantin Eggert
Ernst Grunfeld
as Self
Fyodor Ivanov
Sergei Komarov
as Grandfather
Frank Marshall
Richard Reti
Rudolph Spielmann
Carlos Torre
F.D. Yates
Boris Barnet
as (uncredited)
Vladimir Nabokov
Fyodor Otsep
as Game Spectator (uncredited)
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Writer
Roger White
Original Music Composer
Editor
Anatoli Golovnya
Director of Photography
B. Sveshnikov
Assistant Director
