Capablanca 1987
Drama
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.
Cast
J
Javier Ávila
R
Ramón Veloz
R
Rogelio Meneses
A
Aleksandr Garin
Crew
- Director
- Manuel Herrera
- Writers
- Eliseo Alberto , Manuel Herrera, Dal Orlov
- Producers
- Nikolai Velmiskin
- Cinematography
- Igor Klebanov
- Composer
- Sergio Vitier
- Production Design
- Luis Lacosta
- Costume Design
- Diana Fernández
Details
- Release date
- Jun 11, 1987
- Status
- Released
- Studios
- Gorky Film Studios, ICAIC
- Country
- Cuba, Soviet Union
- Language
- Russian
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