Mussorgsky (1950)
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.
Director: Grigoriy Roshal
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Aleksandr Borisov as Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky |
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Nikolai Cherkasov as Vladimir Stasov |
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Vladimir Balashov as Mily Balakirev |
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Yuri Leonidov as Alexander Borodin |
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Andrei Popov as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
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Bruno Frejndlikh as Cesar Cui |
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Fyodor Nikitin as Alexander Dargomyzhky |
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Lyubov Orlova as Yuliya Platonova |
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Lidiya Shtykan as Aleksandra |
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Valentina Ushakova as Nadezhda |
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Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna |
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Oleksandra Vasylieva as Mussorgsky's mother |
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Vasili Sofronov as Dormidont Ivanovich |
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Konstantin Adashevsky as Rzhevsky |
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Lev Fenin as Kartsev |
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Grigoriy Shpigel as von Metz |
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Georgi Georgiu as Gagin |
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Rem Lebedev as Ilya Repin |
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Georgy Orlov as Osip Afanasyevich Petrov |
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Vladimir Taskin as |
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Nikolay Kharitonov as peasant in a scene |
| Directing | Grigoriy Roshal | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vasiliy Ulyanov | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Dmitri Kabalevsky | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Lev Sokolsky | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Moisey Magid | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Grigoriy Roshal | Writer |
| Writing | Anna Abramova | Writer |
| Directing | Gennadi Kazansky | Assistant Director |
| Art | Nikolai Suvorov | Production Design |
| Art | Abram Veksler | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yevgenia Slovtsova | Costume Design |
| Sound | Dmitri Kabalevsky | Music Editor |
| Sound | Arnold Shargorodsky | Sound Director |
| Editing | Valentina Mironova | Editor |
| Directing | Emil Gal | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Eugeny Kirpichiov | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Ekaterina Serdechkova | First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Georgiy Shurkin | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Mikhail Krotkin | VFX Supervisor |
| Sound | Boris Khaikin | Conductor |
| Production | Ivan Provotorov | Executive Producer |
