Prokofiev

Prokofiev BBC tx 1861961 subtitled Portrait of a Soviet Composer was the second of Ken Russells composer biopics though it takes a rather different approach from his first Gordon Jacob BBC tx 2931959 Whereas in the earlier film Russell had access to the composer himself Sergei Prokofiev had died eight years earlier coincidentally on the same day as Stalin and there appeared to be no authentic movingimage footage of him in existence