Capablanca

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.

6.7
  • Release Date: 1987-06-11
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Director: Manuel Herrera

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Cast

  • Galina Belyaeva

    Sashenka Mojaeva

  • César Évora Díaz

    Capablanca

  • Eslinda Núñez

  • Adolfo Llauradó

  • Boris Nevzorov

  • Javier Ávila

  • Marina Yakovleva

  • Beatriz Valdés

  • Ramón Veloz

  • Alejandro Lugo

  • Rogelio Meneses

  • Vladimir Cruz

  • Andrei Gusev

  • Igor Shavlak

  • Aleksandr Garin

  • Grigoriy Lyampe

  • Elena Kostina

  • Vladimir Razumovskiy

  • Dmitriy Orlovskiy

  • Vladimir Udalov

  • Valeri Kuzin

  • Alexander Zagrudny