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.

Top Cast

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)

Antonina Shuranova

Natalia von Meck

Kirill Lavrov

Pahulsky

Vladislav Strzhelchik

Nicholas Rubinstein

Evgeni Leonov

Aliosha

Maya Plisetskaya

Desire

Bruno Frejndlikh

Turgenev

Alla Demidova

Yulia von Meck

Evgeniy Evstigneev

Laroche

Yakov Nayshuler

эпизод (нет в титрах)

Liliya Yudina

Milyukova

Nikolai Afanasyev

Gostya