Tribeca will screen the world premiere of the feature-length documentary “Magnus”, which follows Magnus Carlsen, known as the “Mozart of Chess”. LFS alumnus Øyvind Asbjørnsen served as Executive Producer and Cinematographer on the film. The 76-minute documentary has been compiled from more than 500 hours of footage shot over a decade, from when a 13-year-old Carlsen was being bullied by his classmates in Norway for his obsession with chess to becoming world champion and the highest ranked player of all time aged 22.
Magnus Carlsen is widely known as the ‘Mozart of Chess’ because, unlike many chess grandmasters, he not only possesses an innate ability and a remarkable memory, but he blends those attributes with unrivalled creativity and intuition. Memorized moves and calculated probabilities can carry a chess player extremely far. But Magnus’ journey eventually proves that there can be other elements of the game, ones that are impossible to measure or calculate.