Mussorgsky

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Grigoriy Roshal

Writers

Grigoriy Roshal, Anna Abramova

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

Release date

27 November 1950

Ensemble

Cast

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  Aleksandr Borisov

  Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky

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  Nikolai Cherkasov

  Vladimir Stasov

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  Vladimir Balashov

  Mily Balakirev

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  Yuri Leonidov

  Alexander Borodin

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  Andrei Popov

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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  Bruno Frejndlikh

  Cesar Cui

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  Fyodor Nikitin

  Alexander Dargomyzhky

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  Lyubov Orlova

  Yuliya Platonova

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  Lidiya Shtykan

  Aleksandra

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  Valentina Ushakova

  Nadezhda

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  Lidiya Sukharevskaya

  Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna

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  Oleksandra Vasylieva

  Mussorgsky's mother