Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen

Imagine a romcom about an obsessed chess fan and his long-suffering wife, driven to attempted suicide as the International Chess Tournament looms large in her psyche. Add the repeated discovery of kittens in the most peculiar of places (including the inside pockets of overcoats) and you get the gist of Chess Fever. This film begs the question no one saw coming: who knew state-run Soviet silent films of the 1920s wer...