Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Tchaikovsky (Russian: Чайковский) is a 1970 Soviet biopic film directed by Igor Talankin. It featured Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Academy Award for Original Song Score and Adaptation.
Tchaikovsky: Directed by Igor Talankin. With Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov, Vladislav Strzhelchik. The life and work of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky is shown through his relationship with aristocratic art connoisseur Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck.
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- Biography, Drama
- Igor Talankin
- 1972-01
Dec 31, 2014 · Tchaikovsky (Чайковский) is a Soviet biographical film about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the famous Russian composer.
The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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.
Filmed in Russia, France and England, Igor Talankin’s lavish biopic of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky paints the picture of an artist who expressed his deepest sorrows and greatest joys in his passionate works.
Tchaikovsky (1970) is a very beautiful and very good film in its own right. And as a biopic it's interesting and is fairly faithful to the composer's life- though with things that could have been better touched upon. Not everything works as well as it could have done.
