Chess in Concert
MovieTitle | Chess in Concert |
User score | 10 |
Release date | Dec 30, 1989 |
Genre | Music |
Director | Anders Eljas |
Production country | Sweden |
Production companies | SVT, MCN Produktion, Skellefteå Kommun |
Run time | 117 min. |
The story of a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other, all in the context of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Concert production of the musical staged during the finals of the 1989 chess World Cup tournament in in Skellefteå, Sweden and broadcast on Swedish television.