Katerina Izmailova(1966)

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.

Genre: Drama

Director: Mikhail Shapiro

Actors: Galina Vishnevskaya, Artyom Inozemtsev, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Aleksandr Sokolov, Roman Tkachuk, Tatyana Gavrilova, Konstantin Adashevsky, Igor Bogolyubov, V. Gerasimchuk, V. Lyubimova

Release date: 1966-11-19

Country of origin: SU

Length: 1h 58m

Ratings:

• 7.4/10