Sergey Rachmaninov Filmography

Born:: April 1, 1873 in Vovgorod Prospect, Russia
Occupation:: Featured Music
Biography:: One of the finest melodists of the neo-Romantics, this composer came from a musical family where his grandfather had been a pupil of composer-pianist John Field (inventor of the nocturne) and his father also played piano. Rachmaninov went on to study at the Conservatoire in St. Petersburg. Several...Read More

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New Year's Concert in St Petersburg

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Bashmet, Yefim Bronfman, Valery Gergiev

Synopsis: In the classical performance release New Year's Concert in St Petersburg - shot on New Year's Day 2007 at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall - Russian maestro Valery Gergiev leads the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in interpretations of symphonic works by Wagner, Strauss, Verdi Read More

2007
Piano Trios: Live From the Miami International Piano Festival

Crew: Featured Music

2003
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge: Ave Verum - Popular Choral Classics

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Christopher Robinson, Peter Davis, Alison Atkinson, Namoi Rudoe

Synopsis: Several religious songs are performed by the renowned Choir of St. John's College in this concert release from Alpha Centauri Entertainment. Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge: Ave Verum - Popular Choral Classics includes renditions of Haydn's "Insanae et vanae curae," Rachmaninov's "Hymn of Read More

2002
S Dnyom Rozhdeniya

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Gulya Stolyarova, Irina Prosyina, Eugene Turkina, Lyuba Starkova, Masha Kuzmina

Synopsis: Blending dramatic situations with a documentary -influenced visual style, S Dnyom rozhdenya / Happy Birthday looks in at a typical day in a Russian maternity hospital. The patients range from a middle aged woman pleased if surprised by her current pregnancy to a Muslim woman whose marriage to a Read More

1999
Partir, Revenir

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Evelyne Bouix, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Anconina, Annie Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: This melodrama, set in WW II during the French occupation, tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the Germans and end up hiding in the country manse of two aristocrats. Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds them and they are sent to a concentration camp. The film then leaps ahead to Read More

1985
Le Meilleur De La Vie

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Marc Bory

Synopsis: Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this well-executed drama about Veronique (Sandrine Bonnaire) and Adrien (Jacques Bonnafe). Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of Read More

1985
Classic Archive: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Synopsis: In this classical music release, Russian maestro Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts two concert mounted and broadcast in London and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra - one on September 9, 1978, and another on August 31, 1979. The '78 performance features interpretations of Rimsky-Korsakov's Read More

1978
Det Sista aventyret

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Göran Stangertz, Ann Zacharias, Marianne Aminoff, Birger Malmsten

Synopsis: The military is just too silly for military cadet Jimmy (Goeran Stangertz) to stay in for very long, and he is released when his sense of humor causes too much trouble. While working as a substitute high-school teacher, he meets a 16-year-old girl who promptly gets him into her bed. Things go well Read More

1975
Van Cliburn in Moscow, Vol. 4: Solo Recitals - Brahms/Prokofiev/Rachmaninoff

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Van Cliburn

Synopsis: Preeminent concert pianist Van Cliburn headlines this classical compilation, comprised of footage from two different venues - one from 1960, where he plays Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 by Rachmaninoff; and one from 1972, where he plays Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 by Prokofiev, and Read More

1972
Interlude

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland, Nora Swinburne

Synopsis: Stefan Zelter (Oskar Werner) is a classical orchestra conductor who is sued for libel after statements made in a newspaper interview. He finds himself blacklisted and out of work and leaves his wife Antonia (Virginia Maskell) to be with the reporter Sally (Barbara Ferris). His wife nobly tells him Read More

1968
Giulietta e Romeo

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Geronimo Meynier, Rosemarie Dexter, Carlos Estrada, Umberto Raho, Toni Soler

Synopsis: The English title of this Shakespeare adaptation is Juliet and Romeo, according the heroine top billing for the first time in history. Its Spanish title, evidently concocted to obscure its literary roots, was Los Amentes de Verona. Directed by costume-spectacle "regular" Riccardo Freda, the film Read More

1964
Ruth Slenczynska: Tribute to Rachmaninoff

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Ruth Slenczynska

1963
Van Cliburn in Moscow, Vol. 3

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Van Cliburn

Synopsis: This classical release features a set by concert pianist Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr., performed and filmed in 1958 Moscow. Selections include two concertos by Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, and Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor. The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, under the Read More

1958
Rhapsody

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov

Synopsis: Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of millionaire Nicholas Durant (Louis Calhern). Accustomed to getting whatever she wants, Louise sets her sights on violin student Paul Bronte (Vittorio Gassman). Read More

1954
The Story of Three Loves

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Farley Granger

Synopsis: This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous Lover," James Mason plays Charles Coudray, a well-known ballet director. When someone asks Coudray why he staged his masterpiece, "Astarte," only once, he tells the story Read More

1953
Brief Encounter

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British Read More

1946
I've Always Loved You

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, William Carter, Maria Ouspenskaya, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: As its fortunes grew in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures occasionally strayed from its usual manifest of westerns and serials, hoping to produce something of "class." Filmed on a lavish budget in glorious Technicolor, Republic's I've Always Loved You stars Philip Dorn as a tyrannical symphony Read More

1946