Youri Egorov 1954 - 1988

Youri Egorov 1954 - 1988 (1989)

Documentary

'In 1980, the VPRO asked me to make a short film about the Russian pianist Youri Egorov. It was allowed to last ten minutes and was broadcast in the then Extra section. We were 25, both born in May 1954. It was my second short film, and I was very nervous. Youri didn't like cameras and even less interviews. But he agreed, "because you were even shyer than he was," his friend Jan Brouwer told me later. In the years that followed, we would meet up sometimes, and on one such occasion, during the last concert of Vladimir Horowitz, I promised him that later, when we would both be 50, I would make 'a real' film about a long and interesting life. Youri smiled politely. When he died in 1988, I said goodbye to him at his home, and Jan Brouwer reminded me of my promise. So I made it after all, a film about a short and intense life.' - Eline Flipse

Director: Eline Flipse

Casts

	Youri Egorov as Self
	Gidon Kremer as Self
	Eleonora Bagratovna as Self
	Hans Kerkhoff as Self
	Svetlana Obolensky as Self
	Jan Brouwer as Self
	Jan Brouwer as Self
	Emmy Verhey as Self
	René Martin as Self
	Maria João Pires as Self
	Jacques Thelen as Self

Crew