Movies: Dmitri Shostakovich

Between Russia and the USA, an enchanting concert in summery tones, led by young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and South African soprano Golda Schultz. On the program: works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky and Samuel Barber, as well as G...

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 years later, resulting in a Pravda review that viciously condemned it. It was later replaced by an expurg...

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

Irina Evteeva’s debut quickly became a kind of manifesto for the one-room experimental studio: it defines classification by interweaving animation, appropriated footage, feature and documentary to form a unique whole, a film that rushes backwards int...

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

The documentary tells about the feat of Leningrad residents, the work of architects and mountaineers, the masking of the city and the preservation of monuments. Thanks to the unique chronicle, drawings and photographs, eyewitness accounts and analysi...

1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In one of the battles, Lieutenant Volynin’s attack aircraft, damaged by a shell fragment, landed in ter...

The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert focusing on British and Russian music, but with a nod to his native USA. He’s joined by the sensational young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang in G...

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 brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The woman with a lust for life and love gives way to her raw lo...

A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich....

The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived and worked during that time. It was 1942-43....

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

A picturesque sketch of flowers....

About the events that took place on January 9 in St. Petersburg, which marked the beginning of the revolution of 1905-1907 in Russia....

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The film is about the monument erected with the participation of M. Anikushin in honor of the heroic 900-day defense of Leningrad....

Soviet film reels were found in an abandoned cinema and decided to be projected onto a white screen like a slide film....

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A piano duel between composers, masters and students in a musical performance that, through the active participation of the audience called upon to express themselves on the ideas, styles, stories and musical subjects confronted, transforms a working...