Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky (1970)

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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.

Director: Igor Talankin

Casts

	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)
	Liliya Yudina as Milyukova
	Nikolai Afanasyev as Gostya
	Nina Agapova as Gostya
	Aleftina Evdokimova as Singer
	Liliya Evstigneeva as Gostya na priyeme
	Natalya Klimova as
	Ervin Knausmyuller as Butler
	Luiza Koshukova as Mother Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
	Vladimir Maslatsov as Tramp
	Aleksandr Smirnov as Kaschkin
	Tatyana Strukova as Queen of Spades
	Nikolay Trofimov as Chief of Police
	Arkadi Trusov as Agathon
	Mariya Vinogradova as Woman Call the Police
	Gerasim Voronkov as Petja Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)

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