Tchaikovsky

Release Date: 1970-08-31

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.

Rating: 4.9 / 10

Cast

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)

Antonina Shuranova

as Natalia von Meck

Kirill Lavrov

as Pahulsky

Vladislav Strzhelchik

as Nicholas Rubinstein

Evgeni Leonov

as Aliosha