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Farewell to St. Petersburg (film)

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Farewell to St. Petersburg
Directed byYan Frid
Written byAnatoly Grebnev
StarringGirt Yakovlev
Tatiana Bedova
Tatyana Piletskaya
Vasili Merkuryev
Pavel Kadochnikov
CinematographyOleg Kukhovarenko
Music byVladlen Chityakov
Production
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Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
98 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Farewell to St. Petersburg (Russian: Прощание с Петербургом, romanizedProshchaniye s Peterburgom) is a 1972 Soviet biopic film directed by Yan Frid. The film is about the Austrian composer Johann Strauss's stay in Russia, his concerts in Pavlovsk in the summer of 1857, and his love towards the Russian aristocrat Olga Smirnitskiy, to whom he dedicated several works.

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Awards

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Director Yan Frid received honorary diplomas at the Film Festival of Workers in Czechoslovakia (1973).[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Прощание с Петербургом. Х/ф". Russia-K.
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Farewell to St. Petersburg at IMDb