The Tchaikovsky Files: Confessions of a composer

•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.