Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many...

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...

A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A...

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...

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.

By a twist of fate, Prince Olensky, a scholar of art history and the director of the Hermitage, is entrusted with the mission of preserving the...

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.

New short stop-motion film from Garri Bardin.

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and...

The Indomitable Bow is a unique portrait of Mstislav Rostropovich, a formidable personality as well as a complex, deeply political musician...

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...

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.

Shostakovich’s satirical opera adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Eduard Akimov leads the cast as Kovalyov, the...

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of...

A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called "Market".

A young officer organizes a dance group in the blockaded Leningrad in 1942.

An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year...

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century...

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help.