Music for Potemkin


Music for Potemkin is a hearing by Theun de Vries. The VARA broadcast it on Saturday, January 4, 1969 (with a repeat on Wednesday, August 20, 1969). The director was Ad Löbler. The broadcast took 47 minutes. Scrolling Content

This hearing has a Russian anecdote, derived from Pushkin, as a base: the story of Frost Grigori Potemkin who had a great power in the country at the time of Catharina II because he once had her lover. He abused that power, inter alia, by committing a young adjudicator to acquire a violin virtuoso from Florence to Russia. The man in question did not feel anything so that the young officer resorted to a pseudo artist. But unfortunately, the deception was discovered and that meant the demise of the inventive lieutenant ...

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