Katerina Izmailova
movie
View on VideBits →Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994.
Cast & crew
Vera Titova · Aleksandr Sokolov · Nikolai Boyarsky · Roman Tkachuk · Artyom Inozemtsev · Igor Bogolyubov · Tatyana Gavrilova · Nikolai Leskov · Mikhail Shapiro · Konstantin Adashevsky · Lyubov Malinovskaya · Galina Vishnevskaya