Soviet Comedies of the 1920s with Pamela Hutchinson + Chess Fever

12A

Film

Fri 14 Feb 2025 11:40

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Details: 28 mins, & Subtitled, 1925, USSR

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Writer, film historian and Silent London blogger Pamela Hutchinson brings us a presentation highlighting the influence of 1920s Soviet silent comedies.

This will be followed by a screening of Chess Fever.

Shot in Moscow with real footage from the World Chess Championships, this film follows a young woman (Anna Zemtsova) frustrated by her fiancé’s chess obsession. Despite trying to escape, she meets legendary World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca.

This clever blend of fiction and reality had a lasting impact on cinema, influencing future sports comedies and the use of real-world figures in narrative films.

With live music by John Sweeney.

Choose screening time for: Soviet Comedies of the 1920s with Pamela Hutchinson + Chess Fever

Fri 14 Feb

(ends 12:40)

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Screenings before 16:00 Monday to Friday and before 14:00 at weekends
£8.50 full (plus 12% booking fee*) / £5.00 concessions (plus 12% booking fee*).

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£11.00 full (plus 12% booking fee*) / £8.50 concessions (plus 12% booking fee*).

Aged 24 or under and refugees and asylum seekers
Any screening, any day any time for £5.00 (plus 12% booking fee*).

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Our cinema seats are 46cm wide, with wooden armrests on either side of each seat that can’t be moved.

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