Movies: Dmitri Shostakovich

Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army....

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...

Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri...

A biopic, looking at one of the major leaders of the assassination of Czar Alexander II....

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet government. A brief take on his life, from his transition as a...

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....

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...

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

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

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 and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she...

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

During the brutal siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, musicians are able to stage a public performance of the Seventh Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich....

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

A picturesque sketch of flowers....

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona....

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 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....