Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky is a 1970 Soviet biopic film directed by Igor Talankin. It featured Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of the famous 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. Cast Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Antonina Shuranova as Nadezhda von Meck Kirill Lavrov as Władysław Pachulski Vladislav Strzhelchik as Nikolai Rubinstein Yevgeny Leonov as Alyosha Maya Plisetskaya as Désirée Artôt Bruno Freindlich as Ivan Turgenev Alla Demidova as Yulia von Meck Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as Herman Laroche Nina Agapova as a guest Maria Vinogradova as a lady calling for the police Nikolay Trofimov as chief of police Laurence Harvey as Narrator (English version) See also List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of Soviet submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film References