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Tchaikovsky

1970 157 min Drama, Music, History

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.

IMDb 6.4

oscars

2 nominations

  • 1971 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • 1971 MUSIC (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) Dimitri Tiomkin

director Igor Talankin

writers Yuriy Nagibin, Igor Talankin, Budimir Metalnikov

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