Mussorgsky
27/11/1950
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.
Movie Information
Aleksandr Borisov
as Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Vladimir Stasov
Vladimir Balashov
as Mily Balakirev
Yuri Leonidov
as Alexander Borodin
Andrei Popov
as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Bruno Frejndlikh
as Cesar Cui
Fyodor Nikitin
as Alexander Dargomyzhky
Lyubov Orlova
as Yuliya Platonova
Lidiya Shtykan
as Aleksandra
Valentina Ushakova
as Nadezhda
Lidiya Sukharevskaya
as Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna
Oleksandra Vasylieva
as Mussorgsky's mother
Vasili Sofronov
as Dormidont Ivanovich
Konstantin Adashevsky
as Rzhevsky
Lev Fenin
as Kartsev
Grigoriy Shpigel
as von Metz
Georgi Georgiu
as Gagin
Rem Lebedev
as Ilya Repin
