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  • Alla Osipenko (1975 Television, Video)

    Compilation of four television recordings, each c40mins, featuring Soviet ballerina Alla Osipenko. In cassette 1 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (c39min, b&w), a piece choreographed by Igor Cherenyshev to music by...

  • Troil I Kressida (1975 Television)

    aka: Troilus and Cressida

    Director
    David Karasik

    Soviet version of Troilus and Cressida directed by David Karasik.

  • Mnogo Shuma Iz Nichego (1973 Film)

    aka: Much Ado About Nothing

    Director
    Samson Samsonov

    Russian film version of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Samson Samsonov with Konstantin Rajkin as Benedick and Galina Jovovich as Beatrice.

  • Korol Lir (1971 Film)

    aka: Korol Lir

    Director
    Grigori Kozintsev

    Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...

  • Gori, Gori, Moja Swesda (1969 Film)

    aka: Shine, Star, Shine!

    Director
    Alexander Mitta

    Feature film. A heroic comic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformation three years after the October Revolution. In a town square, a solo-performance based on...

  • Beregis Avtomobilya! (1966 Film)

    aka: Beware of the Car

    Director
    Eldar Ryazanov

    Feature film comedy. Detochkin, an insurance agent, is angry at the thought of crooks going unpunished and he begins a retribution campaign by stealing offenders’ cars, selling them, and donating the...

  • Katerina Izmailova (1966 Film)

    aka: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

    Director
    Mikhail Shapiro

    Mikhail Shapiro’s official 1966 film of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kiev are conducted by Konstantin Simeonov....

  • Dvoye (1965 Film)

    aka: Two in Love Dvoe

    Director
    Mikhail Bogin

    Short. Relates the growing love between an student oboist and a beautiful girl who studies at a circus theatre for deaf mutes. In one scene the boy watches the girl as the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...

  • Gamlet (1964 Film)

    aka: Hamlet

    Director
    Grigori Kozintsev

    Feature film version of the play, with a heavily cut text based on Pasternak’s translation. The political stance of the film-maker is to the fore, and the cinematography stark and elemental. recently...

  • Ukroshenie Stroptivoy (1961 Film)

    aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

    Director
    Sergei Kolosov

    Film of a stage performance of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Andrei Popov and performed by the Central Theatre of the Soviet Army.