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Vera Stroyeva

Boris Godunov

Director Vera Stroyeva Cast Aleksandr Pirogov, Nikandr Khanayev, Georgi Nelepp
110' - 1954 - Drama - Dialogue: Russian
Whether as Pushkin's play, or as Mussorgsky's opera (derived in the main from Pushkin), Boris Godunov has a central place in Russian Culture. Not at least in its cinema, for the first Russian feature film (1907) was a version of the Pushkin tragedy. It was more or less inevitable then, that when Soviet Cinema in the 1950's was casting around for subjects that were ideologically approved, Mussorgsky's opera should present itself as a possibility. Vera Stroyeva cut and reordered the libretto to suit the requirements of cinema, which makes this film not a mere recreation of some staged performance, but a genuinely cinematic version.

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Credits

Directors

Vera Stroyeva

Cast

Aleksandr Pirogov, Nikandr Khanayev, Georgi Nelepp

Scenario

Vera Stroyeva, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Pushkin

Director of Photography

Vladimir Nikolayev, Sergei Poluyanov

Editors

Anna Ovsyannikova

Non original music

Modest Mussorgsky

More info

Dialogue

Russian

Countries of production

Union soviétique

Screenplay based on

"Boris Godunov" (Alexander Pushkin)

Year

1954