When prodigies crash against each other and only one throne exists.
Emmy Award winning documentary, directed by Peter Rosen, about the Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1989, featuring interviews with the contestants and jurists, and footage from rehearsals and performances, including by competition winner Alexei Sultanov.
Direction
Rosen finds opera in rehearsal rooms.
Editing
Cuts between performance and breakdown, ruthless.
Practical Effects
Real competition footage, zero staging.
Director
Peter Rosen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1989 competition occurred as Soviet power crumbled; American and Russian pianists carried geopolitical weight their fingers never asked for.
Sultanov's Rachmaninoff caused juror Dominique de Menil to reportedly weep—then he married her daughter.
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