Warner Music Euroarts - The Tchaikovsky Files: Confessions of a composer, DVD Classic

This documentary brings the Russian composer into the present – in quite a radical and different way, focussing on his life and Tchaikovsky as a person. Based on Tchaikovsky‘s diaries and letters, director Ralf Pleger discovers an entirely new side and sketches a very 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 in Putin‘s Russia. Including personal and intimate interviews with Vladimir Malahkov and eccentric organist Cameron Carpenter.