Chess in Concert

Name: Chess in Concert
Director: Anders Eljas
Genre: Music
Released: 1989-12-30
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 10
Cast: Björn Ulvaeus, Judy Kuhn, Murray Head, Tommy Körberg, Sissel Kyrkjebø

1989

1h 57m

Music

Director: Anders Eljas

Overview

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.