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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Cast
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Antonina Shuranova
Natalia von Meck
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Kirill Lavrov
Pahulsky
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The Master and Margarita
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Nicholas Rubinstein
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Evgeni Leonov
Aliosha
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Gentlemen of Fortune
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Maya Plisetskaya
Desire
Also in
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
Bruno Frejndlikh
Turgenev
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Russia Is Young
The Dead Season
Alla Demidova
Yulia von Meck
Known for
Mirror
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Laroche
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Heart of a Dog
Welcome, or No Trespassing
Yakov Nayshuler
эпизод (нет в титрах)
Known for
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
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Liliya Yudina
Milyukova
Also in
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Nikolai Afanasyev
Gostya
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Igor Talankin Director · Budimir Metalnikov Writer Yuriy Nagibin Writer
United States release September 9, 1970 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Чайковский
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Russia · Russia
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Languages
Original title
Чайковский
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · August 31, 1970
Theatrical
United States · September 9, 1970
Theatrical
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