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Mussorgsky

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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.

Directed byGrigoriy Roshal

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 0m
Language
RU
Released
November 27, 1950
Studios
Lenfilm

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Aleksandr Borisov

Aleksandr Borisov

Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Vladimir Stasov

Vladimir Balashov

Vladimir Balashov

Mily Balakirev

Yuri Leonidov

Yuri Leonidov

Alexander Borodin

Andrei Popov

Andrei Popov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Bruno Frejndlikh

Bruno Frejndlikh

Cesar Cui

Fyodor Nikitin

Fyodor Nikitin

Alexander Dargomyzhky

Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova

Yuliya Platonova

Lidiya Shtykan

Lidiya Shtykan

Aleksandra

Valentina Ushakova

Valentina Ushakova

Nadezhda

Creative team
Directed by
Grigoriy Roshal
Grigoriy Roshal
Written by
Grigoriy Roshal
Grigoriy Roshal
Anna Abramova

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