
11/06/1987
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.

Galina Belyaeva
as Sashenka Mojaeva

César Évora Díaz
as Capablanca

Eslinda Núñez
as

Adolfo Llauradó
as

Boris Nevzorov
as

Javier Ávila
as

Marina Yakovleva
as

Beatriz Valdés
as

Ramón Veloz
as

Alejandro Lugo
as

Rogelio Meneses
as

Vladimir Cruz
as

Andrei Gusev
as

Igor Shavlak
as

Aleksandr Garin
as

Grigoriy Lyampe
as

Elena Kostina
as

Vladimir Razumovskiy
as

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
as

Vladimir Udalov
as

Valeri Kuzin
as

Alexander Zagrudny
as
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