Tsjaikovski (2DVD)

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pjotr Tsjaikovski (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 Tsjaikovski’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tsjaikovski’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians

original title: Tchaikovsky
genre: drama
director: Igor Talankin
script: Budimir Metalnikov, Joeri Nagibin, Igor Talankin
camera: Margarita Pilikhina
music: Dmitri Tyomkin - musical supervision and conductor
Rusland, 1969, Mosfilm

cast: Innokenti Smoktunovski, Antonina Shuranova, Jevgeni Leonov, Maja Plisetskaja, Vladislav Strzhelchik

extra's: Pictures and filmography of the film’s authors / Candids from the shooting ground / Maja Plisetskaja in ballets of P.I. Tsjaikovski / Interview with Innokenti Smoktunovski / Biography and Documentary about P.I. Tsjaikovski / Teasers of the films coming next

awards: Prize for Best Actor (Innokenti Smoktunovski) and Jury Diploma to the film at the San Sebastian IFF, 1970 / Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Film and for Best Musical Adaptation, 1971

DVD5 / R2 / 16:9 / color
running time: 77+80 min.
sound: Dolby 2.0
spoken language: (original) Russian, (optional) English, French
subtitles: Dutch, Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese.