Movies: Dmitri Shostakovich

  • 1950
    The Fall of Berlin

    The Fall of Berlin (1950)

    The Fall of Berlin

    4.81950HD

    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 A...

    The Fall of Berlin
  • 1991
    Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

    Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)

    Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

    6.71991HD

    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."...

    Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
  • 1955
    The First Echelon

    The First Echelon (1955)

    The First Echelon

    4.91955HD

    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, fa...

    The First Echelon
  • 2019
    Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable

    Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable (2019)

    Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable

    102019HD

    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. Including unreleased documents, archive films, interviews and...

    Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
  • 1971
    Little Tragedies

    Little Tragedies (1971)

    Little Tragedies

    01971HD

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

    Little Tragedies
  • 1970
    One Hour With Kozintsev

    One Hour With Kozintsev (1970)

    One Hour With Kozintsev

    01970HD

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    One Hour With Kozintsev
  • 1966
    12 Chairs

    12 Chairs (1966)

    12 Chairs

    7.21966HD

    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...

    12 Chairs
  • 2021
    ... But You Can't Hide

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

    ... But You Can't Hide

    02021HD

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

    ... But You Can't Hide
  • 1955
    The Beast with a Million Eyes

    The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)

    The Beast with a Million Eyes

    3.81955HD

    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 Beast with a Million Eyes
  • 1964
    Hamlet

    Hamlet (1964)

    Hamlet

    7.11964HD

    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 t...

    Hamlet
  • 2020
    Blockade Architecture

    Blockade Architecture (2020)

    Blockade Architecture

    02020HD

    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 analysi...

    Blockade Architecture
  • 1935
    The Youth of Maxim

    The Youth of Maxim (1935)

    The Youth of Maxim

    51935HD

    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 merit...

    The Youth of Maxim
  • 2012
    Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

    Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream (2012)

    Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

    02012HD

    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 th...

    Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
  • 1969
    Сыны отечества

    Сыны отечества (1969)

    Сыны отечества

    71969HD

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    Сыны отечества
  • 1992
    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1992)

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    31992HD

    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...

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
  • 1970
    King Lear

    King Lear (1970)

    King Lear

    6.51970HD

    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 t...

    King Lear
  • 1979
    The Nose

    The Nose (1979)

    The Nose

    01979HD

    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....

    The Nose
  • 2014
    Orango

    Orango (2014)

    Orango

    02014HD

    "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 c...

    Orango
  • 2011
    The D Train

    The D Train (2011)

    The D Train

    62011HD

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

    The D Train
  • 1988
    Ariel

    Ariel (1988)

    Ariel

    7.01988HD

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

    Ariel