TCHAIKOVSKY DVD

Movie Description:
Ed Stoppard stars as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in this compelling 2-part drama/documentary. In 1893, just nine days after conducting the premiere ofwhat he considered to be his best work, the Sixth Symphony Tchaikovsky is dead. His brother Modest insists the cause is cholera, but many believe thedeath to be suicide. Why wouldthis hugely successful composer of such classical masterpieces as "Romeo and Juliet," "Swan Lake" and "TheNutcracker" commit suicide? Could it have been the accumulated trauma of being homosexual at a time when the official punishment for being gay wasexile to Siberia, or perhaps the lingering sorrow and guilt from a disastrous, short-lived marriage some 16 years previously?