Capablanca
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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.
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Galina Belyaeva
Sashenka Mojaeva
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César Évora Díaz
Capablanca
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Corazón salvaje
Wild at Heart
César Évora
Capablanca
Eliseo Alberto
Manuel Herrera
Eslinda Núñez
Known for
Memories of Underdevelopment
Juan of the Dead
Adolfo Llauradó
Also in
The First Charge of the Machete
Lucía
Darl Orlof
Boris Nevzorov
Known for
The Fool
The Major
Javier Ávila
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Melodrama
Justicia
Marina Yakovleva
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Region
The Saboteur
Beatriz Valdés
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100 días para enamorarnos
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Manuel Herrera Director · Eliseo Alberto Writer Manuel Herrera Writer
First release August 10, 1987 · Produced in Cuba, Russia · Production ICAIC
Production
Gorky Film Studios
Production
ICAIC
Production
Cuba · Russia
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Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · August 10, 1987
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Cuba
October 19, 1987 · Theatrical
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