Movie

Tchaikovsky (1970)

• August 31, 1970
• 2h 37m

• Drama
• Music
• History

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.

Director

Igor Talankin

Writers

Yuriy Nagibin, Igor Talankin, Budimir Metalnikov

Starring

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov