Dmitri Shostakovich Movies
- 1981
Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola
Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola5.31981HD
The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many...
- 1962
Cherry Town
Cherry Town4.31962HD
Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye,...
- 1935
The Youth of Maxim
The Youth of Maxim5.81935HD
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and...
- 1936
The Girlfriends
The Girlfriends51936HD
Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war...
- 1932
Shame
Shame4.41932HD
Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of...
- 2016
Shostakovich: Katerina Izmailova
Shostakovich: Katerina Izmailova02016HD
Opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) Libretto by Dmitri Shostakovich and Alexander Preis after 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk...
- 1931
Golden Mountains
Golden Mountains5.51931HD
Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years...
- 1938
The Man with the Gun
The Man with the Gun4.71938HD
The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
- 1992
Simone Weil Avenue
Simone Weil Avenue01992HD
The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived...
- 1989
Dirty Hands
Dirty Hands5.31989HD
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The...
- 1941
Концерт-вальс
Концерт-вальс01941HD
- 2020
Blockade Architecture
Blockade Architecture02020HD
The documentary tells about the feat of Leningrad residents, the work of architects and mountaineers, the masking of the city and the preservation of...
- 1961
Five Days, Five Nights
Five Days, Five Nights71961HD
Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While...
- 2019
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)02019HD
From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage,...
- 1938
The Defense of Volotchayevsk
The Defense of Volotchayevsk01938HD
Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern...
- 1992
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk31992HD
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life...
- 2009
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk02009HD
At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the...
- 2002
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk02002HD
A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
- 1931
Alone
Alone5.11931HD
A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there.
- 2015
Hypothetically Murdered
Hypothetically Murdered02015HD
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...