The Blind Musician

The Blind Musician

Artkino's Brilliant New Color Film

1961 · 75 min · ★ 6.8 · Drama

In the wealthy noble family of Popelsky, the only son Petrik is blind from birth. His mother Anna Mikhailovna, infinitely loving and pitying the boy, educates him as a rare fragile flower. And only Uncle Maxim, who fought under the banner of Garibaldi in his youth, is trying to accustom the boy to independence. The boy begins to recognize the world by touch, and one day his fingers find the keys of a piano. But, still not knowing the price of his talent, he leaves with the tramps "to seek the truth." And now only love can reconcile him with the world of the sighted.

Directed by Tatyana Lukashevich · Written by Iosif Manevich

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Boris Livanov Maxim Yatsenko
Vasiliy Livanov Pyotr
Marianna Strizhenova Anna Mikhailovna
Larisa Kurdyumova Evelina
Yuri Puzyryov Joachim
Aleksei Gribov Fyodor Kandyba
Sergei Blinnikov Stavruchenko
Viktor Murganov Ilya
Vadim Grachov Andrei
Nikita Kondratyev Kuzma
Nikolay Kozinin bell ringer
Aleksandr Smirnov Popelsky

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