Chess

Chess

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 12, 2003

Runtime

2h 8m

Genres

Drama

User Score

87%

Original Title

Chess

Production Companies

Mono Music AB, SVT

Director

Lars Rudolfsson

Description

The first Swedish language stage version of Chess, starring Helen Sjoholm as Florence Vaszi. Josefin Nilsson as Svetlana Sergievskaja, Tommy Korberg as Anatolij Sergievskij, Anders Ekborg as Freddie Trumper and Per Myrberg as Alexander Molokov. The cast sing new lyrics in Swedish ( written by Rudolfson, Jan Marks and Bjorn Ulvaeus) to tell a new version of the everchanging Chess story. A few new songs have been included (Chess continues to be a work in progress.) This version premiered in February 2002 at the Cirkus Theatre in Stockholm.