Movies: Dmitri Shostakovich

Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions i...

A movie concert filmed at the Mosfilm studio in 1940 with the participation of leading soloists and musical groups of the Soviet Union....

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's T...

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west."...

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The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet government. A brief take on his life, from his transition as a...

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union....

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881....

A biopic, looking at one of the major leaders of the assassination of Czar Alexander II....

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"MacMillan's vision has been vital in shaping The Royal Ballet's style and repertory, and what better way to appreciate his art than with this rare chance to experience three contrasting works in a single performance. Abstract, dramatic, humorous - t...

An unfinished film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel Bukar. It exposes the underhanded actions of US Embassy personnel in Mo...

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby, but he falls asleep, so she ask for help to her neighbors....

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1934 and was a success until Stalin saw it two years later, resulting in a Pravda review that viciously condemned it. It was later replaced by an expurg...

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history....

Opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) Libretto by Dmitri Shostakovich and Alexander Preis after 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District' by Nikolai Leskov First performance in Moscow, Stanislavsky-Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre,...

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the revolutionary period....

During the brutal siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, musicians are able to stage a public performance of the Seventh Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich....

Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri...

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye, among the new settlers called "our Cheryomushki". Lida and her father go to inspect the apartment, but ...