Chess in Concert

Jun 17, 2009

2h 22m

★ 6.8

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.

Genres

Music

Production Companies

Warner Music Entertainment

KQED

Chess in Concert Trailers

Cast

Anatoly Sergievsky

Josh Groban

Florence Vassy

Idina Menzel

Frederic Trumper

Adam Pascal

Alexander Molokov

David Bedella

Svetlana Sergievsky

Kerry Ellis

Walter de Courcy

Clarke Peters

The Arbiter

Marti Pellow

Host

Tim Rice

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