Farewell to St. Petersburg (film)

This article is about the 1972 film. For the waltz, see Abschied von St. Petersburg.

Farewell to St. Petersburg
Directed by	Yan Frid
Written by	Anatoly Grebnev
Starring	Girt Yakovlev Tatiana Bedova Tatyana Piletskaya Vasili Merkuryev Pavel Kadochnikov
Cinematography	Oleg Kukhovarenko
Music by	Vladlen Chityakov
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1972 (1972)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Farewell to St. Petersburg (Russian: Прощание с Петербургом, romanized: Proshchaniye 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.

Cast

• Girt Yakovlev - Johann Strauss (voiced by Aleksandr Demyanenko)
• Tatyana Bedova - Olga Smirnitskaya, Russian aristocrat
• Tatyana Piletskaya - Natalia G. Smirnitskaya
• Vasili Merkuryev - Leybrok
• Pavel Kadochnikov - Pavel Maksimov
• Igor Dmitriev - Grand Duke
• Sergey Karnovich-Valois - manager
• Yelena Anderegg as Olga Nikolayevna (as Ye. Anderegg)
• Viktoriya Gorshenina
• Pavel Kashlakov as Nechayev

Awards

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

External links

Farewell to St. Petersburg at IMDb