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...

Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...

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

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.

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...

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

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby, but he falls asleep, so she ask for help to her neighbors.

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years...

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the...

Documentary - Filmed at the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, Austria, this 1986 performance took place at a benefit concert to raise funds for the...

From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will...

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...

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

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1934 and was a success until Stalin saw it two...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio...