Plot Summary

1925. José Raúl Capablanca, a famous Cuban chess player and employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrives in Moscow for an international chess tournament. The trip, taking place under Machado's dictatorship, casts doubt on his future in this position. The film shows Capablanca's dramatic matches with Lasker, Tartakower, and Bogolubov, his tragic love for Bolshoi Theatre ballerina Sasha Mozhaeva, and a simultaneous game in which he lost to the very young Mikhail Botvinnik.

Movie Details

Original Title
Capablanca
Status
released
Original Language
es

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Cast

Galina Belyaeva as Sashenka Mojaeva

Galina Belyaeva

Sashenka Mojaeva

César Évora as Capablanca

César Évora

Capablanca

Eslinda Núñez as

Eslinda Núñez

Adolfo Llauradó as

Adolfo Llauradó

Boris Nevzorov as

Boris Nevzorov

Javier Ávila as

Javier Ávila

Marina Yakovleva as

Marina Yakovleva

Beatriz Valdés as

Beatriz Valdés

Ramón Veloz as

Ramón Veloz

Alejandro Lugo as

Alejandro Lugo

Rogelio Meneses as

Rogelio Meneses

Vladimir Cruz as

Vladimir Cruz

Andrei Gusev as

Andrei Gusev

Igor Shavlak as

Igor Shavlak

Aleksandr Garin as

Aleksandr Garin

Grigoriy Lyampe as

Grigoriy Lyampe

Elena Kostina as

Elena Kostina

Vladimir Razumovskiy as

Vladimir Razumovskiy

Dmitriy Orlovskiy as

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

Vladimir Udalov as

Vladimir Udalov

Production Companies

Gorky Film Studios logoGorky Film Studios
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