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.

Director: Manuel Herrera

Casts

	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

Crew