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5.2 2h 37m

Tchaikovsky

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.

Top Cast

  • Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

    Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)

  • Antonina Shuranova

    Antonina Shuranova

    Natalia von Meck

  • Kirill Lavrov

    Kirill Lavrov

    Pahulsky

  • Vladislav Strzhelchik

    Vladislav Strzhelchik

    Nicholas Rubinstein

  • Evgeni Leonov

    Evgeni Leonov

    Aliosha

  • Maya Plisetskaya

    Maya Plisetskaya

    Desire

  • Bruno Frejndlikh

    Bruno Frejndlikh

    Turgenev

  • Alla Demidova

    Alla Demidova

    Yulia von Meck

  • Evgeniy Evstigneev

    Evgeniy Evstigneev

    Laroche

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.

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