Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

A documentary film about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It focuses on the period between 1936 and 1945, during which Shostakovich composed his...

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The...

New short stop-motion film from Garri Bardin.

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio...

Katerina Ismailova is wealthily married and lonely, her husband impotent and her father-in-law a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless...

A century ago, the grandparents of film director Peter Entell had to flee Ukraine, a land torn apart by war and massacres. One hundred years later,...

About the events that took place on January 9 in St. Petersburg, which marked the beginning of the revolution of 1905-1907 in Russia.

A picturesque sketch of flowers.

A movie concert filmed at the Mosfilm studio in 1940 with the participation of leading soloists and musical groups of the Soviet Union.

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as...

The documentary tells about the feat of Leningrad residents, the work of architects and mountaineers, the masking of the city and the preservation of...

A bus travel

A young burglar gets more that he bargained for when a robs a house...

Soviet film reels were found in an abandoned cinema and decided to be projected onto a white screen like a slide film.

Between Russia and the USA, an enchanting concert in summery tones, led by young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and South African soprano Golda...

The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived...

From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will...