Mussorgsky backdrop

Mussorgsky 1950 Directed by Grigoriy Roshal Мусоргский

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Language Russian
Gneres Drama , History
Production Company Lenfilm
Release Date 27 November 1950
120 mins
Cast
Aleksandr Borisov Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Nikolai Cherkasov Vladimir Stasov
Vladimir Balashov Mily Balakirev
Yuri Leonidov Alexander Borodin
Andrei Popov Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Fyodor Nikitin Alexander Dargomyzhky
Lyubov Orlova Yuliya Platonova
Lidiya Shtykan Aleksandra
Lidiya Sukharevskaya Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna
Oleksandra Vasylieva Mussorgsky's mother
Vasili Sofronov Dormidont Ivanovich
Lev Fenin Kartsev
Rem Lebedev Ilya Repin
Georgy Orlov Osip Afanasyevich Petrov