Filming in the historic Armenian quarter of Tbilisi, Georgia, where Khachaturian grew up.

During filming in the village of Kodjori, Georgia, Khachaturian’s birthplace.

Left to right: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian shortly before all three were denounced by Stalin in 1948.

Khachaturian as a young man with his wife, composer Nina Makarova.

“It’s difficult to understand the work of an artist without understanding his inner world” – Aram Khachaturian