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Tchaikovsky (1970)

Tchaikovsky (1970)

Drama Music History
Release Date: 1970, August 31
Directors: Igor Talankin
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Alla Demidova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Yakov Nayshuler, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Mariya Vinogradova, Bruno Frejndlikh, Evgeni Leonov, Aleftina Evdokimova, Maya Plisetskaya, Aleksandr Smirnov, Nina Agapova

Overview:

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.