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6.5/10 • 52

2022-11-112h 24m

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Antonina Miliukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.

Directors
Kirill Serebrennikov
Editors
Yuri Karikh

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  1. Alena Mikhaylova

    Alena Mikhaylova

    Antonina Milyukova

  2. Odin Lund Biron

    Odin Lund Biron

    Pyotr Tchaikovsky

  3. Nikita Elenev

    Nikita Elenev

    Kotek, Tchaikovsky's Pupil

  4. Ekaterina Ermishina

    Ekaterina Ermishina

    Liza, Antoninona's Sister

  5. Philipp Avdeev

    Philipp Avdeev

    Modest Tchaikovsky / Anatoli Tchaikovsky

  6. Miron Fedorov

    Miron Fedorov

    Nikolai Rubinstein

  7. Andrey Burkovskiy

    Andrey Burkovskiy

    Vladimir Meshchersky

  8. Aleksandr Gorchilin

    Aleksandr Gorchilin

    Brandukov, Tchaikovsky's Pupil

  9. Varvara Shmykova

    Varvara Shmykova

    Sasha, Tchaikovsky's Sister

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CinemaSerf

Jan 10, 2024

7/10

Alyona Mikhailova is really quite good here as the all-but-obsessed "Antontina"" who takes a shine to the already acclaimed, but not especially wealthy, Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Odin Lund Biron). She manages to use her influential friends to get her into his conservatoire but though a competent pianist, struggles to make the grade or to pay the 50 roubles per month fee! Her infatuation encourages her to propose marriage to him. He politely declines, but she perseveres and in the end he opts for a companionship style of relationship. Initially that works, but gradually her love wants to manifest itself in something more physical and that repels him. Repels him to the extent that he leaves her and seeks a divorce. She fights this and with poverty and extreme emotional loneliness looming we follow her life through to it's rather sad conclusion during which, despite having three children with her lawyer lover "Shlykov" (Vladimir Mishukov), she never fails in her love. History tells us a little of the man's peccadilloes, and indeed as the film progresses we soon see that his "preferred" company is of much more importance to him that his marriage. That drama plays out in an uncomfortable to watch series of scenarios that cannot help to elicit a great degree of sympathy for a lady caught up in something that neither can control. The films looks great capturing the imagery, poverty and aspirations of late 19th century Imperial Russia but it's a really slow burn and I am afraid I just didn't really ever quite understand why she was quite to pathologically besotted with a man who, to his credit, was clear from the outset that he didn't want a marriage at all, and that if he did it was unlikely to offer more than a "brotherly" love. I needed to know just a little more of what made her tick and to be honest, I also needed a bit more meat on the bones of his life too. There's also a distinct paucity of his music which rather reduced this to the status of a stylishly photographed melodrama of family discord that really underdelivered on the characterisation front. Mikhailova does well though, her diminishing grasp on sanity and reality being well depicted and in all this is worth a watch. Just a little disappointing.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Budget
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Revenue
$1,300,000.00
Keywords
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