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.
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
- Maya Plisetskaya as Desire
- Bruno Frejndlikh as Turgenev
- Alla Demidova as Yulia von Meck
- Evgeniy Evstigneev as Laroche
- Yakov Nayshuler as эпизод (нет в титрах)