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Richter: The Enigma (1998) (TV)
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A sad end to a brilliant career
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(Credited cast) | Svyatoslav Richter | ... | Himself (as Sviatoslav Richter) |
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Richter, l'insoumis (France)
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Featured in "Zomergasten: (#15.3)" (2002)
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Perhaps this film confirms that, in the end, we are all failures because, in the end, we all get old and die. Sviatoslav Richter was certainly one of the best, if not THE best of his generation of concert pianists, a generation that was not short of talent. Though his interpretations were sometimes eccentric, his performances always seemed valid and always grabbed the listeners' interest. I have many Richter recordings, some dating from the 1950s. To see him in this film in his final years was a terrible shock. To see this depressed, resigned, shadow of a man look back on a career that was successful by any standard and regard it with such indifference is one of the saddest portraits I have ever seen. He seems to say that his job was like any other job. He is glad that he did it tolerably well but now it is over and all there is to do is die. What a contrast to the bio-doc on the career of Artur Rubenstein that I saw at about the same time, a pianist who was widely and justifiably admired but who admitted having a limited technique and the skill to hide it. Both films are great historical records for all music lovers.