📜 Overview:
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. Dmitri Shostakovich also wrote the screenplay for the screen version of Katerina Izmailova.
🌏 Languages Available:
Russian
📆 Date Released:
1966-11-19
⌚ Running Time:
118 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
3.7
Beloved Cast
Katerina Izmailova
Galina Vishnevskaya
Sergey
Artyom Inozemtsev
Zinoviy Borisovich
Nikolai Boyarsky
Aleksandr Sokolov
Tatyana Gavrilova
Roman Tkachuk
Vera Titova
Lyubov Malinovskaya
Igor Bogolyubov
Konstantin Adashevsky
