Writer
1899 - 1977
Vladimir Nabokov
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-born multilingual novelist, poet, translator, critic and entomologist considered the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian while living... Read full bio →
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Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi
1925
24m
7.0
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 chess.
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