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Mussorgsky

Mussorgsky

1950 2h 0mHistoryDrama

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

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Synopsis

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

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Grigoriy RoshalGrigoriy RoshalDirectorAnna AbramovaWriterDmitri KabalevskyDmitri KabalevskyComposerMoisey MagidMoisey MagidCinematographyLev SokolskyLev SokolskyCinematography

Cast

Aleksandr BorisovAleksandr BorisovModest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Nikolai CherkasovNikolai CherkasovVladimir Stasov
Vladimir BalashovVladimir BalashovMily Balakirev
Yuri LeonidovYuri LeonidovAlexander Borodin
Andrei PopovAndrei PopovNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Bruno FrejndlikhBruno FrejndlikhCesar Cui
Fyodor NikitinFyodor NikitinAlexander Dargomyzhky
Lyubov OrlovaLyubov OrlovaYuliya Platonova
Lidiya ShtykanLidiya ShtykanAleksandra
Valentina UshakovaValentina UshakovaNadezhda
Lidiya SukharevskayaLidiya SukharevskayaGrand Duchess Elena Pavlovna
Oleksandra VasylievaOleksandra VasylievaMussorgsky's mother
Vasili SofronovVasili SofronovDormidont Ivanovich
Konstantin AdashevskyKonstantin AdashevskyRzhevsky
Lev FeninLev FeninKartsev
Grigoriy ShpigelGrigoriy Shpigelvon Metz
Georgi GeorgiuGeorgi GeorgiuGagin
Rem LebedevRem LebedevIlya Repin

Director

Grigoriy Roshal

Writers

Grigoriy Roshal, Anna Abramova

Release date

27 Nov 1950

Runtime

2h 0m

Studio

Lenfilm

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

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