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.
Igor Talankin
Director
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antonina Shuranova
Natalia von Meck
Kirill Lavrov
Pahulsky
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Nicholas Rubinstein
Evgeni Leonov
Aliosha
Maya Plisetskaya
Desire
Bruno Frejndlikh
Turgenev
Alla Demidova
Yulia von Meck
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Laroche
Yakov Nayshuler
эпизод (нет в титрах)
Liliya Yudina
Milyukova
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