Country:Russia

Director:Vsevovlod Pudovkin

Program:Parralel Pathways

Summary:

An early comic short by Russian master Pudovkin which perfectly illustrates the radical approach to editing found in the Russian avant-garde as well as the construction of a radical framework that creates an overall dynamic which relates everything to the parallel concept of the chess game. With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape the everpresent condition of chess.