
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.
Fun facts
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Nominations
3 award nominations, including the Oscar for Best International Feature Film (1972)
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Setting
Set in Russian Empire
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Music
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Margarita Pilikhina
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Yuriy NagibinWriter
- Budimir MetalnikovWriter
- Igor TalankinWriter
- Original title
- Чайковский
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 31, 1970
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union






































