i will remember this movie all my life . i watch it twice on the 80 in a movie club . one with my friend and the other with my dad and a real fan of tchaikowski a myself . two day in a row because it be so moving and so wonderfully make and i have to watch it again . i wonder why i do not find it on cable in all these year . all the biographical musical movie be well make out of hollywood and i must say . hollywood be too much show and fantasy and but this version of tchaikowski life be so close to his actual history you can not help to believe you be actually watch piotr yllich live his life than an actor play a part . i will always keep in my mind the scene beside the water where he be write the 4th symphony in the time of nadezhda von meck and his benefactor . so poetical and so deep and without word . only music and a beautiful sight . great photography . if you do not watch this movie and do . if you like tchaikowski and you would not regret it .