Mussorgsky

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.

Main Cast

Aleksandr Borisov

Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky

Age : 77 | Popularity : 4%

Nikolai Cherkasov

Vladimir Stasov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Vladimir Balashov

Mily Balakirev

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Yuri Leonidov

Alexander Borodin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Andrei Popov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Age : 65 | Popularity : 5%

Bruno Frejndlikh

Cesar Cui

Age : N/A | Popularity : 17%

Fyodor Nikitin

Alexander Dargomyzhky

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Lyubov Orlova

Yuliya Platonova

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Grigoriy Roshal
Writing	Writer	Grigoriy Roshal Anna Abramova
Camera	Director of Photography	Lev Sokolsky Moisey Magid
Costume & Make-Up	Makeup Artist	Vasili Ulyanov
Sound	Original Music Composer	Dmitri Kabalevsky
Department	Role	Name

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