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.
Cast
Galina Vishnevskaya
Katerina Izmailova
Artyom Inozemtsev
Sergey
Nikolai Boyarsky
Zinoviy Borisovich
Aleksandr Sokolov
Boris Timofeyevich
Roman Tkachuk
Village Drunk
Tatyana Gavrilova
Sonetka
Vera Titova
Unknown
Lyubov Malinovskaya
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Konstantin Adashevsky
Priest
Igor Bogolyubov
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Konstantin Tyagunov
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Vladimir Kochurikhin
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