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Director:
Ken Russell
Writers:
Melvyn Bragg (screenplay)
Catherine Drinker Bowen (book) ...
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Release Date:
12 February 1971 (France) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | Music more
Plot:
The compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and music. In Ken Russell's own words: "It's... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Tragic drama of ill-fated heroes. more (24 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Richard Chamberlain ... Tchaikovsky

Glenda Jackson ... Nina (Antonina Milyukova)
Max Adrian ... Nicholas Rubinstein
Christopher Gable ... Count Anton Chiluvsky
Kenneth Colley ... Modeste Tchaikovsky
Izabella Telezynska ... Madame Nadedja von Meck
Maureen Pryor ... Nina's Mother
Sabina Maydelle ... Sasha Tchaikovsky
Andrew Faulds ... Davidov
Bruce Robinson ... Alexei Sofronov
Ben Aris ... Young Lieutenant
Xavier Russell ... Koyola
Dennis Myers ... Von Meck, twin
John Myers ... Von Meck, twin
Joanne Brown ... Olga Bredska
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ken Russell's Film on Tchaikovsky and the Music Lovers
Opus 74 (UK) (working title)
The Lonely Heart (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:
UK:123 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16
Company:
Russ-Arts more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The extras playing (miming) the orchestra in the scene featuring Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky playing the 1st Piano Concerto were mostly from the Bristol University Music Department Orchestra. They were paid 7 guineas a day (£7 and 7 shillings) each - the extras in the audience were only on 5 guineas. The scene was filmed in the Music Room of Bath Spa. more
Quotes:
Antonina Milyukova: He's never loved another woman, has he, mother? No one else. But I, but I have so *many* lovers, so many lovers, so many, so many! See how many lovers, mother! See how many, how many, how many . . . more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Requiem for Krypton: Making 'Superman Returns' (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
THE LETTER SONG more

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Tragic drama of ill-fated heroes., 9 August 1999
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Author: Autonome (autonome@olywa.net) from Portland, Oregon

One of Richard Chamberlain's most memorable and fringe roles. Glenda Jackson is brilliant. The romance, passion, melodrama, and ultimate tragic fate of the main characters are all intensely portrayed with rich cinematography and the most lavish sets Russell ever used. The film carries that subtle yet omnipresent surreality which is a trademark of Russell's films, and which some find so annoying, and others so seductive and heightening of the experience. A truly wonderful but sad film.

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