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The Tchaikovsky Files - Confessions of a Composer

This documentary brings the Russian composer to the present - radically:
Based on Tchaikovsky‘s diaries and letters, director Ralf Pleger discovers an entirely new side and sketches an entirely different profile of the man whose mind and talent brought us Swan Lake. The film focuses on what it meant for Tchaikovsky, a homosexual man, to have to live his life in a homophobic environment - considerations that are all the more relevant and topical in light of recent developments not only in present day Russia, but also in the light of a still present homophobia in the so-called “liberal” Western countries.

Produced by Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion

Awards
ECHO KLASSIK 2016: Musik-DVD-/Blu-ray-Produktion (Documentary)

Facts DVD

Item number
2061518
UPC number
880242615183
Region code
0
Picture format
NTSC 16:9
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Release
Total running time
52 mins
Subtitles
Japanese
Booklet notes
English
No. of discs
1
Recording
2015