Nicolo Paganini

Overview

Biopic about Niccolo Paganini. He receives training from his father in early childhood. The best teachers of Parma are unable to give him more, so Paganini turns to a daily 15 hours of rigorous self-training. He makes sensational concert tours in Vienna, Paris, London and many other cities of Europe. He is always playing from memory, wearing black, and his stage appearance supports the rumors of his supernatural abilities. He is a wealthy man, but gambling and reckless spending forces him to pawn his violin. He is given a Guarneri violin by a wealthy listener to keep. He later gives this violin to the city if Genoa. The Paganini's violin is played by Leonid Kogan in this film.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 4, 1982

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Bulgaria, Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm,Gosteleradio USSR,Bulgaria TV

Cast

Antonina Shuranova,Juozas Budraitis,Sergei Ivanov,Georgi Georgiev-Getz,Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,Vytautas Tomkus,Sergey Shakurov,Yuri Katin-Yartsev,Vania Tzvetkova,Aleksandr Bakharevskyand 8 more

Director

Leonid Menaker

Writer

Leonid Menaker,Oleg Stukalov-Pogodin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0083456