Tony Palmer
The strange case of Delfina Potocka - the mystery of Chopin
Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin
Feature film plus concert

Running Time : 167 min (concert 58 min / film 109 min)
Recording Date: 1999 (both, film and concert
Menu languages: D,GB,F,SP
Subtitle languages: D, F, SP
Language versions: GB, D (feature film)
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo (concert); Dolby Digital 5.1 (film)
Region Code: 2,5
Sel. No. 100 176 PAL

What is the truth about Frédéric Chopin and Delfina Potocka?
The cinematic analysis which Tony Palmer conducted 150 years after Chopin's death and 50 years after the 'suicide' of the Polish grandchild of his passing loved one is much more than just a pictorial representation of quotes from letters. It develops into the mysterious tying together of parallels from the final years of the great composer's life with the events which took place in Poland a good