Nights of Farewell
Nights of Farewell is a 1965 Soviet-French biographical drama film directed by Isaak Menaker and Jean Dréville.
Plot
The film tells about the young dancer Marius Petipa, who is invited to St. Petersburg, which will completely change his life.Cast
- Gilles Ségal as Marius Petipa
- Oleg Strizhenov as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Natalya Velichko as Mashenka Surovshchikova
- Nikolay Cherkasov as Aleksandr Gedeonov
- Marianna Strizhenova as Gedeonov's wife
- Nikolay Trofimov as Petrov, theater worker
- Gennady Nilov as Lev Ivanov
- Alla Larionova as Lyubov Leonidovna
- Vladislav Strzhelchik as Nicholas I of Russia
- Tatyana Piletskaya as pedagogue
- Jacques Ferrière as Anton Minkh
- Pierre Bertin as Petipa's father
- Viviane Gosset as Petipa's mother
- Alexandre Rignault as Bigorne
- Vladimir Yemelyanov as Ivan Vsevolozhsky