Mussorgsky

Overview

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 27, 1950

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm

Cast

Andrei Popov,Lyubov Orlova,Valentina Ushakova,Lev Fenin,Lidiya Sukharevskaya,Lidiya Shtykan,Nikolay Kharitonov,Nikolai Cherkasov,Vasili Sofronov,Rem Lebedevand 11 more

Director

Grigoriy Roshal

Writer

Anna Abramova,Grigoriy Roshal

Producer

Ivan Provotorov

Cinematography

Lev Sokolsky,Moisey Magid

Music

Dmitri Kabalevsky

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0042765