Nights of Farewell (Russian: Третья молодость; lit. Third Youth) is a 1965 Soviet-French biographical drama film directed by Isaak Menaker and Jean Dréville.
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Plot
The film tells about the young dancer Marius Petipa, who is invited to St. Petersburg, which will completely change his life.
Cast
Gilles Ségal as Marius Petipa
Oleg Strizhenov as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Natalya Velichko as Mashenka Surovshchikova
Nikolay Cherkasov as Aleksandr Gedeonov (voiced by Vladimir Tatosov)
Marianna Strizhenova as Gedeonov's wife
Nikolay Trofimov as Petrov, theater worker
Gennady Nilov as Lev Ivanov
Alla Larionova as Lyubov Leonidovna
Vladislav Strzhelchik as Nicholas I of Russia
Tatyana Piletskaya as pedagogue
Jacques Ferrière as Anton Minkh
Pierre Bertin as Petipa's father
Viviane Gosset as Petipa's mother
Alexandre Rignault as Bigorne
Vladimir Yemelyanov as Ivan Vsevolozhsky