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The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is a 1960 film adaptation of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades, based on the 1834 Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, and directed by Roman Tikhomirov.
The Queen of Spades | |
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Directed by | Roman Tikhomirov |
Written by | Aleksandr Pushkin Roman Tikhomirov |
Starring | Oleg Strizhenov |
Cinematography | Yevgeni Shapiro |
Music by | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Distributed by | Lenfilm |
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Running time | 106 min. |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
The film, set in the 1820s, follows a man named Hermann, who has just returned from army service to Moscow. At the beginning of the film, he is in love with the beautiful young Liza - who is engaged to another - but soon he becomes fatally obsessed with learning the secret to a winning card combination from Liza's grandmother, the Countess.
The operatic singing was performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, and Yevgeny Kibkalo.
For this film Oleg Strizhenov received the Aleksandr Pushkin's Big Gold Medal and the prize of the Russian Musical Fund of Irina Arkhipova "for the brilliant realization of the figure of Hermann in the film Queen of Spades".
Cast
edit- Hermann - Oleg Strizhenov
- Lisa - Olga Krasina
- Countess - Yelena Polevitskaya
- Count Tomsky - Vadim Medvedev
- Yeletsky - Valentin Kulik