Film

Capablanca

1987 · Drama

IMDb

6.7

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

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

• Manuel HerreraDirector
• Eliseo Alberto Writer
• Dal OrlovWriter
• Manuel HerreraWriter
• Nikolai VelmiskinProducer
• Igor KlebanovDirector of Photography

Release date

June 11, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

Spanish

Genres

Drama