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Prokofiev: Unfinished Diary
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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AIl that is certain about Sergei Prokofiev is that he was a musical genius and one of the greatest composers of the 20th Century.
With the discovery of his personaI diaries, the mystery that was Prokofiev is about to be reveaIed. Prokofiev fled Russia shortIy after the BoIshevik RevoIution. He spent the next eighteen years trying to buiId a successful career in North America and Europe. Then, he made a decision which stunned the world: he returned to Russia in 1936, at the height of the StaIinist purges. Now more than fifty years after his death, this documentary reveaIs the largeIy untold story about the pivotal eighteen years (1918-1936) outside Russia, the years which sealed his fate. Through the intimate, revealing and often heartbreaking words of Prokofiev's diaries, the fiIm investigates Prokofiev's Iife and art through his own words and the prism of some of his most extraordinary musical creations. |
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