RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN IN
“THE MUSIC LOVERS” 1/5
© 2001. Okihei Enterprise, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Tribute to Richard Chamberlain

 

 

 
A creative artist leads a double life, 
one part of being human, 
the other artistic. 
They don’t always coincide.
 Peter Tchaikovsky

 
Ken Russell’s Film on Peter IIych Tchaikovsky. 

Based on the book “Beloved Friends”
by
Catherine Drinker Bower 
and
Barbara von Meck.

The Cast:

Peter Tchaikovsky…………..Richard Chamberlain
Nina Milukova………....…....Glenda Jackson
Nicholas Rubenstein........Max Adrian 
Count Anton Chiluvsky….Christopher Gable
Madame Von Meck…………Izabella Telezynska
Modeste Tchaikovsky……..Kenneth Colley
SashaTchaikovsky…………….Sabina Maydelle
Nina’s Mother…………......….Maureen Pryor
Alexei……………....................Bruce Robinson
Davidov….............……….......Andrew Faulds
A Young Lieutenant………...Ben Aris
Olga Bredska…………...........Joanne Brown
The Lady in White………......Imogen Chair
The Von Meck Twins………John and Dennis Myers
Prince Balukin..........………..Graham Armitage
Doctor................…………......Clive Grazes
Dimitri Shubelov………........Alex Jawdokinov
Tchaikovsky ’s Mother…….Consuela Chapman
Head Waiter........................Ernest Bale
 
 

The principal Dancers for “The Swan Lake”.

Odile…………........................Georgina Parkinson
Prince Siegfried……….....…Alan Dubreuil
Von Rothbart, 
the magician…………...........Peter White
Queen……….....................…Maggie Maxwell

The Children.

Koyola…................………....Xavier Russell
Bobyek……………................James Russell
Tatiana…………….................Victoria Russell
Madame 
Von Meck’s son……...……Alexander Russell

 

Moscow: “Party in the Snow”.

 

 
The Story.

Christmas 1875.

A ‘White Christmas’ in Moscow and Peter Tchaikovsky and his friend Count Chiluvsky arrange to go to the park and they  make much pleasure between the common people. There amid the noise and the color, he mingles with the very people, who are to shape his life, enrich his music………. and destroy his hope.

Peter has always remained close to his family. 
He idealizes his dead mother: he remembered her when is was singing  while he was playing the piano, he remembered her death…….. 

He loves his sister Sasha, a very sympathetic girl, who understands his personal torments. His brother Modeste also realizes the problems of his love life and uses what he knows about to feed on the composer’s talent, enjoying an easy sycophantic existence.

His brother and sister tell him he has to play in a performance his First Piano Concerto at the Moscow Conservatoire.

 

 

 
While he is playing great views of his country life 
with his beloved family are passing.

 

 

 

 

 

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