Katerina Izmailova
19661h 58mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Music
Overview
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 19, 1966
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Cast
- Galina Vishnevskaya,Vladimir Kochurikhin,Konstantin Adashevsky,Aleksandr Sokolov,Lyubov Malinovskaya,Vera Titova,Nikolai Boyarsky,Konstantin Tyagunov,Igor Bogolyubov,Roman Tkachukand 2 more
- Director
- Mikhail Shapiro
- Writer
- Nikolai Leskov
- Cinematography
- Rostislav Davydov,Vladimir Ponomaryov
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0122128