Ed Stoppard (The Pianist) stars as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in this compelling 2-part drama/documentary.

In 1893, just nine days after conducting the premiere of what he considered to be his best work, the Sixth Symphony, Tchaikovsky is dead. His brother Modest insists the cause is cholera, but many believe the death to be a suicide. Why would this hugely successful composer of such classical masterpieces as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker commit suicide? Could it have been the accumulated trauma of being homosexual at a time when the official punishment for being gay was exile to Siberia, or perhaps the lingering sorrow and guilt from a disastrous, short lived marriage some 16 years previously?