Movies: Dmitri Shostakovich

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona....

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The everyday situations are seen briefly, continously but rarely as perceived and consciously experienced." (M...

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. But Nikolai Leskov’s short novel, which portrays ...

A picturesque sketch of flowers....

The film is about the monument erected with the participation of M. Anikushin in honor of the heroic 900-day defense of Leningrad....

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...

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

An unnamed man is stuck in a dream and soon things break apart as he realizes he's stuck inside that dream forever...

Katerina Ismailova is wealthily married and lonely, her husband impotent and her father-in-law a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The woman with a lust for life and love gives way to her raw lo...

About the events that took place on January 9 in St. Petersburg, which marked the beginning of the revolution of 1905-1907 in Russia....

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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...