14 November 1959 173 mins
Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
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Vera Stroyeva Director
Modeste Moussorgsky Music
Dmitri Shostakovich Music
Yekaterina Ovsyannikova Editor
Anna Abramova Writer
Viktor Zorin Sound
Vera Stroyeva Screenplay
Viktor Dombrovsky Director of Photography
Dmitri Shostakovich Screenplay
United States 17 September 1960
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