Dmitri Shostakovich

Echo Sonata (2023)

In the 1950s, a communist country. The film follows a retired detective who investigates two enigmatic murders. Both murders are connected to a murder exposing an old secret about a corrupt officer that causes controversy throughout the city and alerts the ...

Summertime (2023)

Between Russia and the USA, an enchanting concert in summery tones, led by young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and South African soprano Golda Schultz. On the program: works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky and Samuel Barber, as well as George ...

... But You Can't Hide (2021)

A young burglar gets more that he bargained for when a robs a house... ...

The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks (2021)

An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to corruption, resulting in the exiling of the left and right opposition. Described using a combination of historical ...

Blockade Architecture (2020)

The documentary tells about the feat of Leningrad residents, the work of architects and mountaineers, the masking of the city and the preservation of monuments. Thanks to the unique chronicle, drawings and photographs, eyewitness accounts and analysis of h ...

Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet) (2019)

From The Royal Ballet's classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage, this mixed programme highlights the versatility of the Company. Petipa's Raymonda Act III is Russian classical bal ...

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2019)

Of Shostakovich's initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean para ...

Suburbia (2019)

From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will arise in the most unpleasant of forms. ...

Shostakovich: Katerina Izmailova (2016)

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, 8 Jan ...

Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age (2016)

In the 1920's, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the cabaret and realizes that she is the beautiful dancer "Mademoiselle Margot," but also the love interest of the local ...

Like Dew in the Sun (2016)

A century ago, the grandparents of film director Peter Entell had to flee Ukraine, a land torn apart by war and massacres. One hundred years later, Entell faces the same destructive nationalism. People continue to kill in the name of the mother country, fl ...

Chostakovitch: Lady Macbeth de Mzensk (2016)

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a powerful work of raw emotional intensity. With themes of adultery and murder, the story follows the downfall of a bored provincial merchant's wife who seeks solace and excitement in an extra-marital affair. With a bold and cont ...

Dirty Hands (2015)

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 TV ada ...

Hypothetically Murdered (2015)

In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas a ...

London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5 (2015)

The LSO's Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert focusing on British and Russian music, but with a nod to his native USA. He's joined by the sensational young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang in Gershwi ...

Orango (2014)

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Academy. In the 1920s, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried ...

The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose (2013)

Acclaimed artist William Kentridge directed and designed this visually dazzling Met premiere production of Shostakovich's satirical opera, adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Paulo Szot leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bu ...

Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream (2012)

During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina, and the ballerina's husband decide to swap roles for the even ...

The D Train (2011)

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by. ...

Three Ballets by Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations/The Judas Tree/Concerto (2010)

"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 - this pr ...

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2009)

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich's opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the most heinous crime just like the Shakespearian Lady Macbeth. But Nikolai Leskov's short novel, which portrays Kather ...

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2007)

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 expurgated v ...

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2002)

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. ...

After the Reconciliation (2000)

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life. ...

Fantasia 2000 (2000)

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts. ...

Casas Viejas: el grito del sur (1997)

We're All Still Here (1997)

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of one of them rehearses his part in a theatrical play, reading a 20th century philosophical text about totalitari ...

Lou Didn’t Say No (1994)

Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis. ...

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1993)

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. ...

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1992)

A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs ...

Simone Weil Avenue (1992)

The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived and worked during that time. It was 1942-43. ...

No Return (1991)

Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation... ...

The Horse, the Violin and a Little Bit Nervous (1991)

Irina Evteeva's debut quickly became a kind of manifesto for the one-room experimental studio: it defines classification by interweaving animation, appropriated footage, feature and documentary to form a unique whole, a film that rushes backwards into the ...

Ariel (1988)

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide. ...

Eine Bewegung der Zeit (1987)

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The everyday situations are seen briefly, continously but rarely as perceived and consciously experienced. ...

Poodle (1985)

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring. ...

Parade of the Planets (1984)

A rare astronomical phenomenon — the parade of planets — has a strange effect on several men. The heroes of the film — an astrophysicist, locksmith, salesman, architect, loader, trolley bus driver — are called up for military training, which ends a ...

The Chosen Ones (1983)

A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Colombia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich. ...

You Should Survive (1981)

1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In one of the battles, Lieutenant Volynin's attack aircraft, damaged by a shell fragment, landed in territory ...

Invitation to Life (1981)

About the forestry scientist Ivan Vikhrov, who devoted his life to the forest and the fight against the fact that "forestry is turning into ordinary forest management. ...

Flower Music (1981)

A picturesque sketch of flowers. ...

We Looked in the Death's Face (1980)

A young officer organizes a dance group in the blockaded Leningrad in 1942. ...

Bells of Autumn (1979)

A musical fairytale based on the poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess" by Alexander Pushkin. ...

The Nose (1979)

Shostakovich's satirical opera adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Eduard Akimov leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing. ...

And We Had Silence... (1977)

An adult man is recalling his childhood years in North Russia during WWII. ...

On Thursday and Never Again (1977)

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the doctor's ex-girlfriend is also there, and she is expecting a child. ...

Spring of the Twenty-Ninth (1976)

Follows the builders of the first five-year plan. The hero of the film is the director of construction of the tractor plant Grigory Guy, a man of inexhaustible energy, selflessly devoted to the cause, who managed to rally the team for early completion of c ...

King Lear (1970)

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns f ...

One Hour With Kozintsev (1970)

Sons of the Fatherland (1969)

25 October, the First Day (1968)

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. ...

Sofiya Perovskaya (1968)

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

12 Chairs (1966)

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 is a di ...

Katerina Izmailova (1966)

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and h ...

Little Tragedies (1966)

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

Year as Long as Life (1965)

The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution. ...

Hamlet (1964)

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the min ...

Cherry Town (1963)

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 it tur ...

The Condemned of Altona (1962)

A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past. ...

Magueyes (1962)

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

Five Days, Five Nights (1961)

While Dresden is in ruins in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city's Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain ...

Khovanshchina (1959)

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

Leningrad Symphony (1957)

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. ...

The First Echelon (1955)

In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy. But the young are young - they work, enjoy life, fall in ...

The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)

At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through their eyes and control their actions. ...

The Gadfly (1955)

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization "Young Italy", envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jea ...

Song of the Rivers (1954)

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run through their respective lands. The film was shot on the Volga, the Mississippi, the Nile, the Yangtze, the ...

Belinsky (1953)

A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin. ...

The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1951)

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War. ...

Farewell, America! (1951)

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 Moscow a ...

The Fall of Berlin (1950)

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei ...

Meeting on the Elbe (1949)

Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945. ...

Michurin (1949)

About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American offers to work abroad, Michurin continues his research in the Russian Empire, despite the fact that his ideas are not perceived by the tsarist government, the churc ...

The Young Guard (1948)

In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight, and their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens. ...

Pirogov (1947)

A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), famous for being the founder of field surgery. ...

Simple People (1945)

A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev b ...

The Fall of Berlin (1945)

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany's capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts captured the battle and its aftermath, supplemented with seized German footage. The film rec ...

Zoya (1944)

The true story of one of Russia's most beloved national heroines. During the Nazi siege of Moscow, a fearless 18-year-old girl named Zoya risked her life as a partisan fighter. Captured by the Germans, Zoya endured unspeakable tortures at the hands of the ...

Adventures of Korzinkina (1941)

A lyrical comedy about cashier Yana Korzinkina, who loves helping people. To cheer up a budding singer, she accompanies him to the theater and ends up at a pop music competition. ...

The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse (1940)

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help. ...

The Vyborg Side (1939)

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins t ...

Friends (1939)

The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov. ...

Great Citizen (1938)

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

The Defense of Volotchayevsk (1938)

Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army. ...

The Man with the Gun (1938)

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin. ...

The Return of Maxim (1937)

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a prot ...

The Girlfriends (1936)

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from ...

Love and Hate (1935)

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and decide to blow up the mine, the women organize a guerrilla action to stop them. ...

The Youth of Maxim (1935)

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in r ...

The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1933)

A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called "Market". ...

Counterplan (1932)

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film's title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the Frenc ...

Golden Mountains (1931)

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replaceme ...

Alone (1931)

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there. ...

Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable (2019)

The Indomitable Bow is a unique portrait of Mstislav Rostropovich, a formidable personality as well as a complex, deeply political musician constantly engaged in a whirlwind of activities. ...

A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2007)

The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997)

A documentary film about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It focuses on the period between 1936 and 1945, during which Shostakovich composed his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies, but also briefly discusses other works in the ...

Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola (1981)

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 an earl ...

Sons of the Fatherland (1969)

The Magic Beam (1963)

"The Magic Beam" is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s. ...

Концерт-вальс (1941)

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