Music of Passion 1970

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
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky) 

Antonina Shuranova
Natalia von Meck 

Kirill Lavrov
Pahulsky 

Vladislav Strzhelchik
Nicholas Rubinstein 

Evgeni Leonov
Aliosha 

Maya Plisetskaya
Desire 

• Tchaikovsky