Boris Godunov
Action happens at the end of the 16th century, on the eve of "time of troubles". The main character of this historical tragedy - the Russian tsar Boris Godunov who has ascended to a throne after Ivan the Terrible after tragic even...
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"This was the first of the great Russian filmed operas of the 50s, and it is of the greatest Russian opera of all. It has five acts, but it was successfully compressed into 100 minutes with nothing missing of anything vital. It also ends correctly with the revolution scene - when Rimsky-Korsakov edited the opera after Musorgsky's death, he made Boris' death scene the end of the opera. Although the film is old, it is a startling performance on all accounts, Pirogov makes a very convincing Boris with his nightmares and paranoic traumas, and Georgi Nelepp is dashing enough as the false D..."
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Action happens at the end of the 16th century, on the eve of "time of troubles". The main character of this historical tragedy - the Russian tsar Boris Godunov who has ascended to a throne after Ivan the Terrible after tragic even...