of admiration and love.
You've created an idol for yourself,
to whom you've devoted your life.
As soon as he has known fame,
he forgot about you.
Fame is a matter of fashion.
There was a time when people
preferred Zagoskin to Gogol.
And who reads him now?
You know, time puts things
into perspective.
It'll always be a mystery to me how
you, with your knowledge of people,
could write for 13 years to that man
and not realize
that he is completely selfish
and egotistical.
Yes, one can live side by side for 13
years and be mistaken about someone.
I am talking about you,
Vladislav Albertovich.
You have understood nothing,
not the character of Pyotr Ilyich,
nor his music,
nor the nature of our relations.
Which is why you will go down
in history as Pahulsky
and he as Tchaikovsky.
Don't be afraid, for God's sake.
I have no intention of harming you.
I've come to beg a favor.
It would be easy for you
to make me happy
without it costing you anything.
I've been told that you can
foretell three winning cards.
Can you?
It was but a joke,
I swear!
Who jokes about this?
I must know if these three cards
will always work.
For whom are you keeping this secret?
Your grandchildren? But they are
already rich.
Too rich to know the true value
of money. I know its value.
The secret of the three cards
won't be wasted.
Don't refuse my request!
Reveal your secret to me.
What good can it do you?
You selfish witch!
I will make you talk!
The old woman! You?
What are you doing here?
Why are you laughing like that?
You witch, you have driven me mad!
What do you want of me?
You want my life?
Take it!
Vladislav Albertovich!
Hello!
- Good day.
- How nice to see...
Vladislav Albertovich,
what's the matter?
Why hasn't Nadezhda Filaretovna
answered my letters?
She's been taken ill
with an incurable mental illness.
My God! It happened so suddenly!
But why?
You ask why?
Doesn't it even enter your mind that
you might be the one to blame?
Vladislav Albertovich!
Listen to me. What has made you think
during all these years
that you have the right to abuse
the trust and love of everyone?
Do you think your music
forgives you everything?
There is a God.
And there will be justice.
And God will punish you!
What is it?
I have never in my life
felt so well and happy.
I'm satisfied with my symphony.
There's only some work to do
on the end...
But perhaps I shall rewrite it.
Perhaps... I don't know.
Perhaps I will...
I don't know.
You may go, Alyosha.
I need to be alone.
Pyotr Ilyich died
eight days after that concert.
Directed by
Igor TALANKIN
Screenplay by B. METALNIKOV
Yu. NAGIBIN, I. TALANKIN
Music arrangement by
composer and conductor Dimitri TIOMKIN
Director of Photography
Margarita PILIKHINA
Production Designers
A. BORISOV, Yu. KLADIENKO
Sound by
Yu. RABINOVICH, V. SHMELKIN
Cast
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Innokenty SMOKTUNOVSKY
Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck
Antonina SHURANOVA
Alyosha
Yevgeny LEONOV
Desiree
Maya PLISETSKAYA
Nikolai Rubinstein
Vladislav STRZHELCHIK
Julia von Meck
Alla DEMIDOVA
Pahulsky
Kirill LAVROV
Guerman Laroche
Yevgeny YEVSTIGNEYEV
Miliukova - Lilia YUDINA
Turgenev - Bruno FREINDLIKH
Soloists and performers
Lev VLASENKO
Vladimir ATLANTOV
Irina ARKHIPOVA
Valentina LEVKO
Galina OLEINICHENKO
Yuri MAZUROK
Concertmaster M. GRIGORIEV
The End