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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975) was a Soviet composer. He was regarded throughout his life as one of the major composers of the 20th century.
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27 December 2000
An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.
27 October 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.
01 January 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.
01 January 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 future, thereby re-inventing Futurism.
01 January 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.
20 August 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.
01 September 2016
A century ago, the grandparents of film director Peter Entell had to flee Ukraine, a land torn apart by war and massacres.
01 January 1992
The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook.
19 August 1991
Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation.
12 November 2016
Opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) Libretto by Dmitri Shostakovich and Alexand3
11 March 2011
An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.
21 May 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 attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up.
17 April 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 construction.
03 March 1935
A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers.
25 December 1980
A young officer organizes a dance group in the blockaded Leningrad in 1942.
01 November 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.
27 June 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.
26 September 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.
16 July 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.
01 January 2000
Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.
19 March 1997
Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work.
06 June 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.
11 May 1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
17 June 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.
11 March 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.
01 May 1981
1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls.
21 October 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.
01 January 1992
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist.
24 June 1964
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev.
30 October 1962
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire.
12 April 1955
Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing.
23 January 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.
01 January 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.
04 June 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.
09 January 1985
About the events that took place on January 9 in St. Petersburg, which marked the beginning of the revolution of 1905-1907 in Russia.
26 October 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.
17 September 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.
15 December 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 ahead of time.
11 October 1948
In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia.
01 April 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.
16 March 1949
Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945.
21 January 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.
27 February 1961
Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
15 December 1970
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him.
12 July 1940
A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help.
01 April 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.
31 December 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.
20 January 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.
01 April 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".
09 October 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.
19 February 1936
Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life.
01 January 1977
On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve.
07 November 1932
Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. 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 French socialist movement of the 1930s.
20 August 2021
A young burglar gets more that he bargained for when a robs a house...
12 March 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.
16 October 2016
In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita.
18 March 1929
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman.
